Has anyone else been over 20 years before a recurrence?

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  • cathyp
    cathyp Member Posts: 379 Member
    #22
    Bella Luna said:

    Someone else comes to mind
    Someone else comes to mind Cynthia. Julia Childs lived into her late 80's, I believe, with no recurrence! They are out there.
    BL

    I'm sure there are many
    I think it is good to remember, that most posters on these types of boards are those with current health issues. There are many that are doing well that never seek out discussion boards so we never hear about them. We are getting just a small window of all the survivors out there.
  • Angie2U
    Angie2U Member Posts: 2,991
    #23
    cathyp said:

    I'm sure there are many
    I think it is good to remember, that most posters on these types of boards are those with current health issues. There are many that are doing well that never seek out discussion boards so we never hear about them. We are getting just a small window of all the survivors out there.

    I think you are so right
    I think you are so right Cathyp. A lot of the women don't post here anymore as they finished their treatments and have moved on with their lives.


    Good luck to everyone!


    Hugs, Angie
  • CypressCynthia
    CypressCynthia Member Posts: 4,014 Member
    #24
    Bella Luna said:

    Someone else comes to mind
    Someone else comes to mind Cynthia. Julia Childs lived into her late 80's, I believe, with no recurrence! They are out there.
    BL

    I wasn't asking about who
    I wasn't asking about who never had a recurrence though. I was asking who DID have a recurrence after a PROLONGED time. My recurrence was after a 22 year remission.
  • PinkPearl
    PinkPearl Member Posts: 280
    #25
    My mom went 34 years
    before her cancer reoccured. Her first breast cancer mastetomy was done in 1975 just after my first child was born! They did a radical mastectomy but could not follow up with chemo because of her severe asthma. Last year she had a cancer removed from the other breast and now one year later at 86 she is still doing well. Some think it is a second different cancer but my own breast surgeon says since my mother never did chemo or radiation the first time around this could be a reoccourance. She is one amazing survivor! Despite 3 of her daughters having breast cancer and losing one daughter to breast cancer this past August and losing another daughter many years ago to severe asthma, my mother is still a trouper and I am so proud of her. Now I have been diagnosed with BC just two weeks after losing my sister to this dreaded disease and my mom has to go through all the worry and stress again. But I think her 35 years of surviorship should give us all tons of hope!!! God only knows how our bodies will react and all we can do is fight cancer the best way we know how.
    Best of luck to you!
    Merlyn
  • dee1962
    dee1962 Member Posts: 99
    #26
    17 year remission.....
    I was first diagnosed when i was 31. I had a lumpectomy and 3 nodes positive....chemo and radiation then tamoxifen for 5 yrs......went 17 years july 2010 went for checkup and boom stage iv mets.....omg i was and still in shock....started chemo 3 weeks ago and i take it one day at a time.. The difference this time is that's there's no cure this time around so i get down on myself which is why i signed up for this chat it makes me feel better and i'm don't feel so alone.... So we have to keep our chins up higher this time around.....I wish you and everyone on here all the BEST....Dee
  • CypressCynthia
    CypressCynthia Member Posts: 4,014 Member
    #27
    dee1962 said:

    17 year remission.....
    I was first diagnosed when i was 31. I had a lumpectomy and 3 nodes positive....chemo and radiation then tamoxifen for 5 yrs......went 17 years july 2010 went for checkup and boom stage iv mets.....omg i was and still in shock....started chemo 3 weeks ago and i take it one day at a time.. The difference this time is that's there's no cure this time around so i get down on myself which is why i signed up for this chat it makes me feel better and i'm don't feel so alone.... So we have to keep our chins up higher this time around.....I wish you and everyone on here all the BEST....Dee

    It sucks that we thought we
    It sucks that we thought we were done but we're not...sigh. But I figure I've got at least another 22 yrs of fight left. As my nephew (then 4 yrs old) used to say, "I will nevuh suwwenda!" Keep fighting Dee and let's beat it together!
  • weazer
    weazer Member Posts: 440
    #28
    dee1962 said:

    17 year remission.....
    I was first diagnosed when i was 31. I had a lumpectomy and 3 nodes positive....chemo and radiation then tamoxifen for 5 yrs......went 17 years july 2010 went for checkup and boom stage iv mets.....omg i was and still in shock....started chemo 3 weeks ago and i take it one day at a time.. The difference this time is that's there's no cure this time around so i get down on myself which is why i signed up for this chat it makes me feel better and i'm don't feel so alone.... So we have to keep our chins up higher this time around.....I wish you and everyone on here all the BEST....Dee

    My Mother 22 years
    And 3 and a half years ago she was feeling tired and run down and went to see her Onc, and had a pet scan and found it on her plura of her lung.
    Had biopsy to confirm, and now she has been on femara and the tumar has shrunk.
    As far as I know she will be taking this drug till who knows when.
    Side effects sucks.
    take care all Karie
  • dee1962
    dee1962 Member Posts: 99
    #29
    CypressCynthia said:

    It sucks that we thought we
    It sucks that we thought we were done but we're not...sigh. But I figure I've got at least another 22 yrs of fight left. As my nephew (then 4 yrs old) used to say, "I will nevuh suwwenda!" Keep fighting Dee and let's beat it together!

    CypressCynthia,
    lol it really does SUCK....Yes and together we can do it.....
  • mariam_11_09
    mariam_11_09 Member Posts: 691 Member
    #30
    A woman who lived in our

    A woman who lived in our building was more than twenty years out from her original diagnosis and treatment. Currently (I still bump into her), as far as she knows she has had no other reoccurrence or other cancer.

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