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By BRIDGE8 under license from Mangorolla CIC 2024
Oh I am sorry Dolphin59, it is really hard to lose people to cancer.
Breast cancer is known to metastasize/move to the lungs and bones. It is where it likes to spread, but we don’t yet know why. Breast cancer has had several new drugs developed in recent years such as herceptin and now one for cells which are resistant to herceptin called KADCYLA. These drugs means more women are surviving breast cancer every year. Mammogram screening and breast cancer symptom awareness campaigns mean that more women are also getting diagnosed early, which means they have more chance of killing the cells before they spread.
however, some types of breast cancer (there are may not just one) are just very aggressive and grow so quickly that the women die. This happened to a friend of mine who was only about 45 and it was very sad. Scientists around the world are always working on new and better ways to detect and treat all types of cancer, including breast cancer. They are also researching ways to better detect if only a few cells have metastasized which would normally be missed and allow the cells to grow into new harder to treat tumours
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Sorry to hear about your grandmother. Cancer growth is measured in doubling times.One doubling time is the amount of time that it takes for the mass of cancer cells to double in size. Doubling times may be as short as 10 days or as long as several years. Usually women realize that they had had a breast cancer for long years before it was discovered. Even if you have fast growing breast cancer (with a doubling time of ~2 months) it takes almost 4-5 years before it gets large enough to be detected by a mammogram and more than 5 years before you feel it. If it is slow growing cancer (with a doubling time of ~2 years) it may take 30-40 years before you find out you have it. The good news is there are medicines that act on breast cancer cells, including those which have spread (metastasised). But I am not a doctor so can’t really tell anything beyond this.
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