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Survival with comorbidities

Shadowfox
Shadowfox CSN Member Posts: 3
in Senior Survivors #1

Breast cancer survivor here, age 78 at the mo.  Recently in Cure Magazine I read a section on older breast cancer patients having a 50% survival rate.  However, with comorbitities (which I have in spades) the rate drops to 3 to 5 %.  A bit of a shock.  But all the same I'm hanging in. 

Anybody else in such a situation?  How do you handle the emotional swings?

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