Caring for Someone with Stage IV or Mets
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how to be helpful when your friend has cancer
How to be helpful when your friend has cancer. by Susan McCamey A lot of articles talk about the logistical ways you can help friends with cancer, like delivering meals and helping with housework and errands. But I haven't read as many articles about how to help with the emotions of cancer. So here is some advice from a…
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An Advanced Breast Cancer Prognosis
Caryn is a regular poster on Breastcancer.org. Diagnosed with ER+/PR+, HER2- IDC in August 2011, she had a bilateral mastectomy, radiation to bones, and is taking Aromasin as a hormone suppressant. Read an interview with her here https://advancedbreastcancer.net/living/prognosis-statistics
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Can you go in remission more than once
My mom has been dx with breast cancer in 2002. After surgery, radiotherapy, chemo and tamoxifen she was in remission. In 2015 she was dx stage IV mets to the bones. Has been on letrozole until this summer and her cancer seemed to be dormant with the letrozole until then. It has woken up this summer (this is the way the dr…