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Alaska Angel --many breast cancers have steroid receptors which can actually be activated by the steroids given with the chemo

Many patients with asthma,rheumatoid arthritis, and other inflammatory diseases are on chronic steroids and have no smaller risk of breast cancer, so I doubt your theory on the steroid would hold for many. That does not mean it could not hold for a few

There are so many receptors/pathways/alternate pathways. I think it is hard to know in your case exactly why you did not recur-- without studying your individual tumor with expensive tests most of which we do not yet know how to interpret