women live alot longer than 1st thought with mets!!!

Hi all

Well firstly a huge thankyou to all you wonderful people out there who put a smile back on a very miserable face this week, i thought the world was going to go off like a massive mushroom cloud until all of you put my life back into perspective.....thankyou soooooo much!

Second, i spoke to my lovely oncologist yesterday whilst having radiotherapy planning and he was soooo optimistic i will be ok and he also mentioned that even when breast cancer does come back and metastasisis (sp!) they are living significantly longer than any of the current stats out there are saying, he said that in his clinic alone women with mets have been coming in for three weekly checks ten years after recurrance and that is rising all the time, he said that in my situation after having done Taxotere as 1st line treatment he expects me to still be going to his clinic long after he retires (hes only in his 30s), this all made me look at this disease so much differently, although i did alsi hear i lost a freind to BC last week who was only 38, please all pray for her children.

So lets all stay happy with those encouraging thoughts and stay strong aswell.

Love 2 all
Nikki