What does it mean to “cure” cancer? Isn’t chemotherapy a largely effective solution? Why do they say cancer hasn’t been cured then?
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I have breast cancer, secondary Her2+ breast cancer. There are many different types of breast cancer, mine is , supposedly the second most aggressive with triple negative being the most aggressive.
I was diagnosed de novo, in other words it had spread to my bones & liver before diagnosis. In a weird way I’ve been lucky as my herceptin treatment (immunotherapy) is working for me. My next treatment will be my 100th, my prognosis was 2-3 years, It’ll be 6 years since diagnosis in October. I had 6 rounds of chemo at the start to reduce my tumours but as it had already spread my treatment is palliative.
I’ve lost 7 treatment friends since lockdown, most of those with other types of breast cancer, they have all lost their lives around the 2-3 year mark. That’s why I consider myself lucky, I known my cancer will become immune to herceptin at some point, but I keep as positive as I can.
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