Sunday, March 16, 2008

What percent of women survive having breast cancer twice

What percent of women survive having breast cancer twice?
My cousin has breast cancer, again, and she isn't doing well. I just wanted to know if anyone knew the percent of women who survive breast cancer twice. I lost my grandmother two years agot to breast cancer, she also had it twice. Thank you.
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1 :
I would have to believe that it is a rare or nonexistent occasion that a women gets breast cancer twice. It is far more likely that the cancer just went into remission temporarily. I do not have much of a medical background, but I would guess that the survival rate of women with a second bout of breast cancer is not much lower than of those only having it once. She is probably just as likely to beat it as she was the first time around.
2 :
We need more information to give you an educated answer. Is this a second primary in the opposite breast, or is this metastatic disease - a recurrence of the original breast carcinoma in another location such as lungs, liver, bones, brain, etc. If this is a second primary breast carcinoma, what is the stage of the disease? What was the stage of the first breast cancer? How long ago was the first breast cancer? What treatment did she receive with the first one? What were her estrogen and progesterone receptors? - - - Breast cancers are very complicated. With the limited information you are giving us, we cannot give you a good answer.
3 :
breast cancer can be cure. survival is depend on the stage

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