Metaplastic Breast Cancer is a rare cancer of the breast. Metaplastic breast cancer has a number of subtypes. These include Chondroid, Squamous, Matrix, Spindle and Carcinosarcoma. This cancer is very rare and can either triple negative or have some positive aspects. Metaplastic Breast Cancer is supported by several Facebook groups managed by Bena Roberts and also a group Remember the girls who died from Metaplastic Breast Cancer.
Case Study: Do you need chemotherapy to fight metaplastic breast cancer?
Do you need chemotherapy to fight metaplastic breast cancer? This is a case study of a 70 year old woman with a tumour on her right breast and her decision to have radiation therapy only.
Thank-you to "you know who" for allowing me to do this and for all the personal information. Without the support of our amazing MBC girls - we wouldn't get the promotion or interest that we are getting.
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Posted by: Bena Roberts | June 26, 2014 at 07:53 PM
im 59, three adult children, active healthy life....in 2004 i discovered a lump in my breast which my obgyn and i tracked and measured for ten years. it was my choice not to seek further medical intervention such as diagnostic treatment or other. my reason was, women with cancer eventually die of the disease . even after chemo/surgery/radiation treatments which are themselves an assault on the body. i did not want my physical frailty to be a burden or interrupt our three children attending college or graduating. a year after our youngest child graduated two things occurred, one -my youngest daughter said ' mom, i have a lump in my breast ', two- my lump started to surface in to what appeared to be a boil.
now in my family three generation of females are represented as having breast lumps in our early 20"s
my mother, myself and now my daughter. the difference is my mother lived to be 94 without ever been diagnosed as having any cancer , myself whose diagnosis and prognosis is grim, and my daughter whose mammogram was normal.
i recently had surgery which resulted in the mass being removed and 7 f 10 lymph nodes being positive, i chose to refuse chemo, which my doctor feel would be ineffective at this point and i will pursue radiation therapy in the near future. I have read all my reports and my chances of survival are slim, but no one survives cancer do they ? the one thing we can all agree on is that cancer kills and there is no cure.
Posted by: pattricia ann postel | July 05, 2015 at 01:22 PM