Research paper on recurrence after diagnosis/hormone therapy.

NicolaSue · November 2017

HI All,

I've just read the following which was flagged here on the research strand.

Distant Recurrence Risk of Hormone-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Steady 20 Years After Initial Diagnosis

I wonder if we could start a discussion about it?

Is it telling us anything we didn't know about the risks?

I'm struggling a little with the difference between regular risk and cumulative risk which is referred to in the paper. If I understand it and using my fridge as an analogy there might be a 1% the bulb fails this year due to statistics on fridges of this type. But if the bulb doesn't fail this year then the risk becomes 2% next year and 3% the year after etc. Is that right, or have I misunderstood cumulative risk?

wintersocks · November 2017

Nicola sue

I struggle with it too. I am trying to figure out if at 5 years and a little NeD am i nearer to recurrence than I was 2 years ago?! stats and data never my strongest subject.

NicolaSue · November 2017

I'm sure someone will be along soon with an answer for us on the risk question.

I've seen there are quite a few reactions to this piece of research on the internet so it will be interesting to see what people have to say about it.

muska · November 2017

This is being discussed on more than one threads, e.g. this

Research paper on recurrence after diagnosis/hormone therapy.

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