Breast Cancer Prognosis
Chemotherapy and no secondary tumors?
I have a relationship that has breast cancer, the tumor was removed by mastectomy and now has gone to the chemotherapy have just learned that is failing and doctors have found other tumors. What is the usual prognosis for this type of condition, which is usually terminal or there would be no hope?
There is always hope, especially with breast cancer and the facts that there has been much new research conducted on the disease. His family is facing a long, long way. . nobody knows what the outcome will be. Relapse is so difficult to treat but not impossible. She needs your full support, no matter what happened since it will have to make some very difficult decisions. In other types of cancers that have progressed to the stage IV or suffered a relapse of the medical community is becoming more and more towards finding a drug or a chemotherapy drug that the patient may taken to control the growth of cancer. If a medication every day can control their cancer than she may be able to live with cancer. Remember that the Cancer is a progressive disease. . will grow indefinitely unless treatment can stop. So if your family can find a drug that can make every day which stops the cancer she continued growth may be able to maintain a quality of life for an undetermined amount of time. And if you can stand for years to take perhaps medication medical science is the key to this disease. There is always hope.
