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Hi Jacqui

Firstly Happy new year to you.  Wishing you loads of Health, love and happiness for 2011.  Glad that they are looking after you well after your reaction to chemo.  You will notice in my profile pic two gorgeous girls with me, they too are triple neg and doing well after their diagnosis in 2007.

I did want to also convey to you a couple of interesting points about triple neg that you may not be aware of. Triple negative Breast cancer responds very well to chemo and secondly the stats you refer to above does not mean that there are not women alive 5-10 years after diagnosis.  As studies on survival rates for triple negative are realatively new, there are limited statistics available prior to 10 years.  So this means that there are many women still alive and doing well 10, 20 and 30 years after diagnosis of triple neg cancer but we just do not have the data recorded.  Many, many years ago, breast cancer was just that, now with technology in pathology, we are aware to different characteristics of cancer cells and this has lead us to Triple negative cancer.

Also, another positive characteristic of triple negative cancer is that at the 5 year mark patients with Triple negative cancer are "for want of a better word"  cured (whilst this word is not one that those in the medical profession use lightly or often when it comes to cancer),  In short it is much less likely to reoccur than other receptor positive cancers.

Hope I havent given you too much to process.

Hopefully the next chemo will treat you better.  I too had a terrible reaction to the first, but thankfully the following 5 were kinder to me than the first.

Tanya xx