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Bilateral breast cancer anybody???
Hi, i was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer late oct 2016. A 3 cm grade 3 on the right breast and a 2 cm grade 2 on left and 25 nodes removed on the left and centinal and one other on the right....
It varies, @LMK74. In my case, for example, the best available stats suggest that surgery, rads and hormone therapy give me the best chance of survival and chemo increases my chances of survival by 7% over 10 years
This stuff is all incredibly vague, the figures come predominantly from a weirdish study in England, there is no ethical way of conducting double blind research on the effectiveness of chemo.... Phhffft. Oncologists use the Predict web tool which would get laughed out of the lab in any other scientific environment. You can log on and put your own info into it if you are interested. Better still, ask your oncologist to show you and explain.
Chemo certainly works for many people who have active tumours, what it does as an adjuvant therapy is not so easy to establish. It is, as they say, the best thing we have at the moment.
This stuff is all incredibly vague, the figures come predominantly from a weirdish study in England, there is no ethical way of conducting double blind research on the effectiveness of chemo.... Phhffft. Oncologists use the Predict web tool which would get laughed out of the lab in any other scientific environment. You can log on and put your own info into it if you are interested. Better still, ask your oncologist to show you and explain.
Chemo certainly works for many people who have active tumours, what it does as an adjuvant therapy is not so easy to establish. It is, as they say, the best thing we have at the moment.