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I think, like other cancers, we're waiting for the cure. The truth is that treatments are extending survival and many are less toxic than those used even 20 years ago. I was diagnosed de Novo with lobular carcinoma at stage 4. Bone mets only, so I had DMX and radiation therapy. I'm on my first line letrozole and Kisqali for 3 years. But I know others with stage 4 that have been on numerous treatments. The truth is that at this stage, we await new treatments targeting different mutations each year. And there are new treatments approved each year. It buys time. It also helps us understand that everyone's breast cancer is different, even if under the umbrella of lobular carcinoma. So no evidence of active disease is as good as it gets in stage 4. Lobular is hard to pick up on scans, but ctDNA is proving to be an alternate way to measure disease progression. Everyone diagnosed with cancer wonders, why me? I'm sure environmental factors play a role in increased incidence. But with everything we come in contact with deregulated, we can't expect improvements there. The UK won't import our chlorinated chickens. If you want to be angry, be angry with a system that values profit over lives. Do you know why UK doesn't want their people exposed to our carcinogens? Because with socialized medicine there is an incentive to keep people healthy since it costs money to treat illness. Here, illness is big business.

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@jmh22 yes, I agree. It's all about corporate greed.