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Metastatic Breast Cancer treatment options
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jul 22, 2023 | Replies (73)Comment receiving replies
This is something my wife’s oncologist has not mentions. My wife developed metastatic breast cancer that is now in her thoracic spine and sternum. The oncologist has told her it is bad and surgery and radiation will not help. In addition her oncologist said my wife can go ahead and stop chemo whenever she so desires. Yet the oncologist says our insuranc incurable but treatable, and only offers antibodies once chemo isn’t used. We are at a loss and assuming this must all mean she has terminal cancer with no hope. What do we do???
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You can definitely talk more to the doc about this.
I was not clear on what this meant: "Yet the oncologist says our insuranc incurable but treatable,"
Does your wife have stage 4 with her first diagnosis of breast cancer or is this a recurrence?
That report has both good news and bad news. Lymph nodes and organs are clear, it says. Stage 4 is not curable but it is treatable and some even say it becomes like a chronic illness. I hope you can talk more to the oncologist or nurse there!