Kylie Minogue to be fully free of breast cancer in 2011

[Rich66]

http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_kylie-minogue-to-be-fully-free-of-breast-cancer-in-2011_1402004

Wow. I hadn't heard they perfected the crystal ball.

[Laurel]

Huh? What's she smokin', or what have we missed? When did the "cure" happen? Sheesh, must have been sleepin'. Sorry I missed it.

[LoisLane]

Hi Laurel you crack me up you always have such a witty sense of humour. Do you think she feels she will be cured because she will be five years out? I wonder why they would say she would be cured. I guess no one knows her particulars. Perhaps she had very early small cancer with no serious prognostic features. I know when I had the small tumours, no node involvement, no vascular invasion and no Her2 I think they felt I would do pretty well. When the second tumour was Her2 that's when the chemo etc. came into play. Mind you my oncologist has never given me any indication of what my prognosis is. I dont think anyone know what can happen to any individual. My oncologist did say "it all depends how the cells want to behave".

Also if any one has had the tram-flap reconstruction done would you please give me your thoughts about that and recovery etc. Thank you muchly ladies Lois

[Rich66]

As someone advocating for parents with advanced cancer who were both deemed cured, I'm a bit amazed. I have a friend who's mom was recently deemed "cancer free" too...calling her status 6 weeks post mastectomy a "miracle". Whole lotta cure going around. Call off the relays and pink products.

[Laurel]

"Call off the relays and pink products...."

We're joking about the ignorance of the press here, no one more than me, but really what was written in this little snippet is a disservice to women (and the rare "bird" men) who draw the breast cancer card. What the article seems to promote is a glib overview of breast cancer, something I confess I once bought into. What I mean to say is this: when I was diagnosed I naively thought I'd have a lumpectomy, maybe some radiation, and I'd be on my merry way. Well why not? After all I got my mammo faithfully every year without fail, didn't I? Surely I caught it early, right? Early means "curable," right?

Wrong. Perhaps in the case of triple negs who pass the 3 year mark there is a good chance of the beast never returning. For ER pos folks recurrence is always a lovely possibility. And Her-2s? Who really knows? Looks darn promising since the advent of Herceptin, but I have not had anyone makin' me any guarantees. Has your onc promised you on a stack of bibles that your cancer is history, kaput, obliterated, crushed, destroyed, killed, annihilated, exterminated, cured...?

The point is breast cancer is a beast that kills. Still kills. Media articles, however intentioned, give women, especially young women, the false impression that BC isn't the serious disease that it so clearly is.

Ok, and well, that just p---es me off.

Thanks for listening. I feel much better now and so I'll sign off satisfied that the press are a bunch of a-holes and I have alerted the sleeping world of their collective stupidity.

[chrislmelb]

Funny you should mention Kyles, as i was looking at her yesterday on a film clip and was pleased to see she looked a little heavier. thank god it happened to her too!
The poor girl probably said to the press "gee it will be good to get to 5 years" and they took it as she is cured. People have strange ideas about the 5 year mark. I have people say to me that i must be glad cos i won't get it again but i tell them it is not that simple.