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What's the survival rate of breast cancer?
Asked by Madison Lamentola
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Amanda Metivier
Learning About Breast Cancer
The rate actually depends on the stage and course of treatment. It can be as high as 90%
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Hannah B
Learning About Breast Cancer
There is a 90% survival rate
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What is the survival rate for stage 2 invasive ductal carcinoma?
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Sharon Danielson
Survivor since 2007
2007 I had the same diagnosis. My internist made a comment that, above all, was the most comforting. He said, "Well, thankfully, you have the --good-- kind of breast cancer." The fear I felt melted away. I went on to have a mastectomy (totally my choice) 4 rounds of chemo, and am on a...
1 comment 52007 I had the same diagnosis. My internist made a comment that, above all, was the most comforting. He said, "Well, thankfully, you have the --good-- kind of breast cancer." The fear I felt melted away. I went on to have a mastectomy (totally my choice) 4 rounds of chemo, and am on a hormone blocking drug for 5 years. I have my follow-up appointments, and do all I can to stay healthy. The rest I leave to God and pure luck.
Your breast cancer was diagnosed in a early stage and there are lots of answers for you with this type of finding. Yours is the most common and there are several kinds of breast cancer. March through your treatment like a warrior! You have many, many, sisters alive today who have had the same diagnosis.
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Jessica Worcester
Patient
I am in stage 3A of IDC myself,
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What is the cure rate for breast cancer and medullary cancer and/or survival rate? how does it differ?
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I have recurrent breast cancer, it is now in the lymph nodes, does the survival rate go down with recurrent cancer?
Asked by Cindy Jameson
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Diana Foster
Survivor since 2012
Hi Cindy, i don't know the answer to your question but there is a wonderful support board at breastcancer.org. I am stage 3C and have found out so much info there. There is a group of stage 4 ladies that are wonderful. Good luck in your journey!!
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I have recurrent breast cancer, it is now in the lymph nodes, does the survival rate go down with recurrent cancer?
Asked by Cindy Jameson
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L D
Survivor since 2004
I have had breast cancer 4 times, all low stage and once spread to the lymph nodes. I had negative margins after each surgery. This 4th time, I'm taking chemo to hopefully knock this thing out for good. I think it probably has more to do if it spread to other areas and what stage it is. I have...
Comment 1I have had breast cancer 4 times, all low stage and once spread to the lymph nodes. I had negative margins after each surgery. This 4th time, I'm taking chemo to hopefully knock this thing out for good. I think it probably has more to do if it spread to other areas and what stage it is. I have heard of women who live with breast cancer for a long time as a managed disease.
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How does the survival rate increase with radiation after a lumpectomy and chemo? Does it add 5%, 10%...anyone know?
Asked by Connie Herrick
Survivor since 2011-
Coco Smith
Learning About Breast Cancer
1. It has been standard for many decades that radiation does not result in less deaths from breast cancer [called disease specific survival]. In fact, reputable studies have shown a slight increase in the overall or all cause death rate [called overall survival rate] for women treated with...
2 comments 11. It has been standard for many decades that radiation does not result in less deaths from breast cancer [called disease specific survival]. In fact, reputable studies have shown a slight increase in the overall or all cause death rate [called overall survival rate] for women treated with radiation versus those who did not have it. Before concluding radiation is overall causing more deaths than it is saving, there are other theories about these results, such as women who get radiation as opposed to women who don't tend to be more unwell and therefore at higher risk of dying from all cause conditions.Most radiation oncologists will not tell you this - most of them are trained not to as they believe this information may influence more women not to agree to RT. In fact, I find they deliberately try to obscure and dumb down any statistical information to try and get me to go along with whatever they are recommending.
2. Studies however do show an RT benefit when it comes to reducing BC recurrence. Recurrence reduction is important for the following reasons - each recurrence places you under more health stress, and expense but also each recurrence raises your risk of it being more dangerous.
3. This brings us to Connie's question. The benefit an individual breast cancer patient gets from radiation is relative to her risk of recurrence. So, first you need to find out what your individual BC recurrence risk is. I found I had to push my Radiation Oncologist to give me the true facts about my recurrence stats. In my case and with my type and grade of BC as well as other makers such as no lymph node involvement, ki 667 score and all those other results on the histopathology report arising from my excised tumour and lifestyle [I do not drink alcohol, I do not smoke, I take a daily asprin but I am overweight] - well, it was enlightening to FINALLY have him admit my risk of recurrence without radiation was 5% [ie., 95% no recurrence]and if I submitted myself to what he recommended which was 6 weeks radiation plus boost to my entire breast, the best I could improve the situation was by 2%, which means 97% no recurrence risk. I was not offered partial breast irradiation which is a less damaging RT option for women with my stats but PBI is another topic.
4. I realised immediately at this point why he did not want to inform me about my real risk stats. I am a numbers person and try to make rational decisions based on facts - I am not an emotional decision maker and I was not sitting there crying or anything like that. He knew from my personality and presentation that there is no way I was going to subject myself to radiation for a measly 2% improvement in my already great stats. So getting this most basic medical information about the the Radiation Oncologist was time consuming and he was as uncooperative as a hostile witness on the stand - it took me an hour to drag the most basic medical information out of him about my stats to enable me to make an informed decision about my own health care and stats but I hunted him down verbally an kept up a steady stream of polite but increasingly pointed questions till I eventually dragged out of him the information I needed as was in fact entitled to in order to make an informed decision about my own health care. My surgeon and Oncologist were the total opposite - they handed over information generously and wanted me to be an adult and make up my own mind.
5. I elected not to have any RT after quadruply checking on things and reading all the leading scientific reports on the topic.
6. I had a rare form of BC called tubular carcinoma which was incredibly slow growing with other helpful features even though it was invasive. I also researched thoroughly every single finding on my histopathology report so I understood what it all meant.
7. My approach was because I had large breasts and a small wide local excision meant I still had plenty of flesh left so if I had regular checks for the rest of my life, any recurrence is likely to be detected and I still have enough breast for another lumpectomy etc and RT if its worse than my first BC. However if I had RT now, I am not permitted to have it a second time - its straight to mastectomy. As my initial BC was so favourable I preferred to keep RT up my sleeve to use in the future as a future BC may not be so indolent. I am also in my 50's so I had on average another 30 years of life in which BC could happen again so I did not want to use up my one go at RT now.
8. Some women are understandably so distressed by the word cancer that they would elect to make RT even for a tiny boost to avoiding a recurrence.
9. I am being so careful here setting out the steps as the overwhelming majority of women with BC are not in my situation and they will get an appreciable or even significant benefit from recurrence by having RT.
10. The question for you Connie is what are your individual BC recurrence stats, and what is your appetite for risk? Its a sliding scale on both questions so its a very personal decision based on what you believe you can cope with. Some women I meet say they would hate themselves if they did not undertake all treatment options no matter how painful, expensive or minimal the benefit and the BC recurred. They would grab any treatment even if it gave less than 1% benefit. Others are like me, weigh up and the pros and cons and have to think there is enough of a benefit to put our bodies through more stress. Your question is where do you fit on this continuum?
11. The one consideration I constantly kept hearing from BC survivors was that RT was a piece of cake compared to eg., chemo, surgery etc simply because it was quick, there was no cutting, and they were not throwing up constantly. My view is RT is not a piece of cake simply because you cannot see and feel all the damage the RT does to your body in the same way we can see and feel surgery or chemo! To me those considerations are irrelevant. To others they feel comforted by their perception is that RT poses the least insult on their body in comparison to their other treatments.
12. I am not encouraging anyone with BC to refuse RT. To me that is irresponsible because I do not know your personal stats, values, personality, options and lifestyle. What I am doing is encouraging any one with BC to carefully question their Radiation Oncologist so you know your true stats with and without RT and you make a decision about your own treatment based on that knowledge. Other patients prefer to know nothing, ask no questions and go through whatever treatment regime is recommended by their medicos.
13. Anyone who is having RT - ask to see the practices stats on radiation errors so you understand what your risk are of over or under treatment. If they don't keep such stats or won't show them to you - flee and go somewhere that has decent quality assurance program in place and is willing to show you results!
14. I know this is a detailed response Connie but this is a very serious question you are posing here, I take it very seriously and I do not want to give you a glib answer.
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What is the survival rate if the lymph nodes are involved?
Asked by barb loevy
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Kathy M
Learning About Breast Cancer
If the cancer hasn't spread past the lymph nodes then the survival rate is good. I was stage 3 with lymph node involvement and I am now cancer free but going through preventative chemo, radiation,
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What is the survival rate for inflammatory breast cancer?
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Kris Shortridge
Learning About Breast Cancer
This is a difficult question to answer because so many advancements have been made in the past few years with treatments. The statistics on the Internet are outdated
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I had a .4mm invasive ductal carcinoma grade 1. It was removed and I had 33 treatments of radiation. Am now taking a pill that blocks estrogen for 5 years with a less than 5% reoccurrence. (I am otherwise very healthy) Do I have a good chance of survival?
Asked by anonymous
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Jessica Fisher
Stage 3A Patient
Absolutely:)
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Jessica Fisher
Stage 3A Patient
I have(had) invasive ductal carcinoma 3 separate tumors which left me only with the option of a mastectomy I chose to have a bilateral for my own peace of mind and will undergo 8 months of chemo startin next week followed by 5 year hormone therapy just today I received my pet scan results and I...
Comment 0I have(had) invasive ductal carcinoma 3 separate tumors which left me only with the option of a mastectomy I chose to have a bilateral for my own peace of mind and will undergo 8 months of chemo startin next week followed by 5 year hormone therapy just today I received my pet scan results and I am cancer free chemo is being done as a preventative measure because I'm only 29 it's an option u might consider cause it will kill any cells that may be floating around my oncologist said because if my age it was the best way to prevent reoccurrence I didn't new rads cause I had all the tissue removed! Best of luck to you!xoxox
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What is the life expectancy of someone with metastatic breast cancer? It's in her bones and spine but not in vital organs.
Asked by Atlanta Woods
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Martha Phillips
Learning About Breast Cancer
I have the same thing bones and spine I've had it for ten months doing good I take zometa and falsodex once a month right now I'm great no one is promised tomorrow pray and may God Bless You in your treatments
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Related Topics
- breast cancer
- survivor
- prognosis
- stage 2
- invasive ductal carcinoma
- risks
- recurrent breast cancer
- lymph notes
- treatment
- lumpectomy
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