low-oxygen and cancer

ihatesnowihatesnow

http://www.newkerala.com/news/story/105208/low-oxygen-bad-for-breast-cancer-patients.html#.UsCsOjiA2M8

http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2013/20131212-gene-test.html

mike3121

Wow, interesting. So technically speaking women that live in low oxygen high altitude areas like Nepal should have a real high rate of death from BC. 

My wife is a "recovering" BC patient that is NED for now. She was DX'd Stage 4 from the beginning. A-C really whacked the cancer right out of her. She's on estrogen blockers for now but the OC says it will return. Question, is she still classified as a Stage 4?

Mike

Holeinone

Mike, I would hate to answer this wrong, but from what I have learned once you are dx stage 4, you are always stage 4. The chemo can do its job, as well as the blockers, and some ladies are NED for years, but you don't go back to stage 3. There had to be cancer somewhere in her body, bones, liver, lungs? In order to be staged 4..

208sandy

Mike - I am Stage IV and you don't go back - you are always Stage IV once diagnosed even though you are NED but lots of Stage IV's live for a very long time after diagnosis - treatments are getting better all the time.

denilynne

I also find this interesting. It makes me think about when a nurse clips one of those oxygen meters on my finger and it never registers until I take a deep breath. What does that mean I wonder.