Success Stories!

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Hi Songbird68 ~ doing great here! Thanks so much for keeping this thread 'bumped up' !

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Just 'passed' my yearly oncology checkup; so I am officially still in the clear, happy and grateful, 8 years out!

CONGRATULATIONS Ruthbru:)

Thank you for sharing inspiration

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they really do need a "like" button on this website. Congrats to all the ladies who have made it through treatment and those with wonderful success stories of long time NED!!!

Thank you!!

my great aunt Josie was diagnosed with breast cancer in her mid 50s and lived to be 99. So I would say she lived for 45 years after cancer removal. I don't know if she had a lumpectomy or mastectomy, but she always had her boobs, so I assume lumpectomy. Not sure about chemo or radiation.

My great aunt Jenny was diagnosed with breast cancer in her early 60s and lived to be 92.

My grandfather was diagnosed in his 30s with lymphoma, had cobalt, and lived to be 75.

I hope I can be as fortunate as they were!

I can only hope. No cancer on the other side of the family, so keeping my fingers crossed

Songbird68, thank you! Treatment so far going well, coming up on round 4 Wwdnesday! Then I will be 2/3rds of the way done. Someday hopefully this will all just be a memory.

Wow - That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!

I have a friend who had IDC and is a 20+ year survivor. Also, my hubby's aunt who had bc in her 50s just celebrated her 100th birthday.

I'd love to hear from long-time ILC survivors.

Great stories ladies. Keep them coming.

When my wife was going through chemo, there was a volunteer at the cancer center who would come around with coffee, juice, cookies, etc while they were administering chemo. This volunteer told her story to us one day. She had been diagnosed with a stage IV cancer (It was NOT bc). When she was diagnosed the doctor said, "We can do chemotherapy...but if I were you, I wouldn't do it. Even WITH chemo you realistically probably have around a year to live." She then told us her response to the doctor was "Gimme the chemo". That was 9 YEARS prior and she had no current evidence of disease. And she looked as healthy as anyone else! There is definitely always hope! No one knows what God has in store for us!

So happy to hear these stories. It's so easy to get caught up with the posts that deal with recurrence, progression etc. Thanks to everybody who post here, it's where I go when I'm feeling especially fearful.

Thank You Tinkerbells ~ It gives us all hope . . .