Hi All
I had my treatment in 2005 and when onc put my info into adjuvant on line it came up with a 10 year survival, However that was based on people trreated in 1995 who were 10 years on.
What I am thinking is that the treatment or drugs in 1995 were not as good as now so does that mean that 10 year survival figures in 2015 ( 10 years from my dx) will be higher due to better drugs etc?
Has anyone asked their onc this?
Love Alise x
Survival rates and death rates from breast cancer are improving though more people are being diagnosed each year.
‘Breast cancer mortality rates in the UK have fallen dramatically since 1989 when 15,625 women died from the disease compared with 12,417 in 2005.’ (quote from Cancer Research UK.) Still far too many.
Jane
HI Alise
I was originally diagnosed in 1995 and went 10 years before secondaries but my advice to you is try to forget the stats as there are a lot of us who beat the odds and are still here even though our initial diagnosis was poor (like me).
As Jane says, survival rates are improving a lot and I’ve found a huge difference in treatments etc from 1995 to now - just can’t compare the two but we (or they!) still have a long way to go.
Pinkdove
My onc sees ladies for check ups who had breast cancer over 30 years ago without a re-emergence. This was the case for a late aunt of mines who passed away 18 months ago from old age. She was on the first chemo trial in Scotland for a drug called 5fu in the very early 70s and her cancer never came back. Another relative of mines who is now a Professor of oncology was the junior doctor who analysed the results of the trial. He told me that our aunt’s breast cancer was aggressive and had a lot of lymph node involvement, so I don’t really read too much into statistics. The mum of my breast care nurse had it about 20 years ago and she went 15 years before it came back.