survival rate with HER-2 breast cancer stage 1-2 GRADE 3

helenelv1944

its very very close to chest wall, i am 70 female 

ziggypop

hi helen, 

There are other things that one would need to know in order to even begin to calculate survival rates. I am always hesitant to point to it ( because I do not know the accuracy and there are so many ways to plug in info that is slightly off & get the wrong result) but there is a site called cancermath. The site allows you to enter in the info about your cancer and your treatments and then gives mortality rates over time (up to 15 years). If you do go to this site make sure that under 'breast cancer' that you use the 'therapy' tool - if you don't use this one then you won't be able to enter your treatments and your survival rates will be much lower and you will scare yourself needlessly. 

As hard as it may be to do so, the best advice I have heard regarding stats is that they are basically there to guide treatment, other than that, they don't do us much good. The question that we really need to ask ourselves is how do we live our lives? Do we want to live thinking all the time that we may not live very long and worrying about it? Or, do we want to do the things each day that bring us joy? 

Kicks

'Stats'/'Survival rates' are just a mathematical listing of ALL who have been DXd with a BC. -  do not individually relate to any particular one of us or our individual DX/prognosis.   Some of the 'stats' are lumped together - the overall 5 yr survival rate when all type (DCIS/LCIS/IDC/ILC/IBC) are lumped together is 87%.  When the different types are separated by type the rates/%s are different.    For IBC (which is only between1% and 5% of all BCs), depending on the research you look at the 5 yr survival rate is 25% - 45% (newer research is showing the higher %.

There is so much more that goes into how we/our body handles the BC experience besides the type, stage and grade.  Other things can  include our overall health, weight, how we have lived our life, family history are some of those things.  I also believe a big part has to do with  rather we have a positive outlook and fight for our life - not dwell in 'Negativeland'.

Remember - no matter what stats say about overall % - our individual % is either 0% or 100%.  We either never deal with BC again (0%) or have cancer again (100%). We can't have a % of it.