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Mellyb
8 years agoMember
Advice on ceasing treatment
Hi everyone I hope someone can help me, this journey is horrible. My mum was successfully treated for breast cancer 9 years ago. Last year it returned with aggression. It attacked her intest...
Mellyb
8 years agoMember
That has exactly proven my point. No one wants to talk about the reality.. But why?
No one wants to talk about the fact that the billions of dollars raised for breast cancer research across the world over the last 30 years . Less than 5% of those funds have gone towards researching MBC. This is only just changing now.
No one wants to talk about the fact that this great new cdk4/6 inhibitor that is marketed at doubling progression free survival has NOT been proven to impact overall survival. There's a big difference between the two In January I sat in the Garvan institute discussing this with cancer scientists and specialists..
Instead we need to talk about these things in closed doors and 'censor' it because it's too confronting for society to acknowledge.
Don't you think it's time MBC is given more light?
PS I do have a psychologist.
No one wants to talk about the fact that the billions of dollars raised for breast cancer research across the world over the last 30 years . Less than 5% of those funds have gone towards researching MBC. This is only just changing now.
No one wants to talk about the fact that this great new cdk4/6 inhibitor that is marketed at doubling progression free survival has NOT been proven to impact overall survival. There's a big difference between the two In January I sat in the Garvan institute discussing this with cancer scientists and specialists..
Instead we need to talk about these things in closed doors and 'censor' it because it's too confronting for society to acknowledge.
Don't you think it's time MBC is given more light?
PS I do have a psychologist.