Thanks Mary
My mum did everything right and was just unlucky. Her first breast cancer 8 years ago she had just had her mammogram at Breast Screen which can back all clear. 5 weeks later she felt a small lump in her breast. Scan and biopsy confirmed it was cancer! They believe it was there at the time of the mammogram but sometimes they are missed with the various angles and breast tissue.
She had mastectomy, lymph nodes removed, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and tablets to stop recurrence.
A few months ago she had abdominal pain, a month in an out of hospital.. Surgery to investigate found tumour in her abdomen..
When it spreads outside of the breast it is advanced or metastatic-breast-cancer or otherwise known stage IV. There is no cure. She is on weekly chemo at present to try to shrink it as it's inoperable and there are other cells about the place.
So if you've had it twice, I assume it was confined to the breast and local rather than a distant metastatic site.. Which has no chance of survival.
The whole situation saddens me so much. I just can't get my head around how someone so vigilant with everything medically can be one of the unlucky ones.
