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Two different stage IV'? - still don't understand
Becky said: "women diagnosed as Stage 4 from the get go, being chemotherapy naive, they may never recur and the chemo may do its magic the first time as it does in the lower stages of cancer (by erradicating micro mets that we don't even know are there). I stand by my fact and I am sure yours is true to but we are talking about 2 different kinds of Stage 4 patients."
Becky, do you have some study or other information to give us to prove this statement? I've never heard that there's a difference between de novo stage IV diagnosis and a stage IV recurrence.
I do agree that no statistics available right now will apply to women being treated for mets right now - because things are changing too fast (for the better) for statistics to keep up. So the news is better than any study can show.
But again, I've never heard of this differentiation and if it's true, there would be many clues within it. Please tell us more.
Debbie Laxague
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