Two Chemo drugs linked to BC spread

[tricia keegan]

Cutiepie, I would have disregarded this out of hand straight away, if it were true it would be huge news and in every newspaper and on news tv show. I also had these meds and while they can certainly leave us with some side effects we're both years out from cancer and that is worth the risk to me. As we age we do have bone issue's regardless of cancer or not, I'm sure genes come into that in a huge way. I took hormone therapy for ten years too and felt no better when I stopped, my aches were simply old age catching up with me although I am very active and walk ninety minute's every day. Chemo is not perfect but it's the best we have, the risks were explained to me and I took them and would do the same tomorrow. However I don't believe for a minute that the drugs I had cause cancers to spread and it's a shame we don't have a link to the article but I really would'nt wowrry about it.

[Becky]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-018-0256-3

[Becky]

It was just published in Nature this month. It is specific to getting chemo before surgery. You can't read the whole article but the abstract is specific about they have tons of work to do to see if there is a relationship generally.

Sometimes studies are done and it is relevant to a certain population of patients and not all patients. For example, Herceptin almost was not marketed because the first studies showed no statistical improvement because they tried it on some women who were not Her2+ so it didn't work too well. This may be significant to a population of very specific women who should get their tumors removed first and then get chemo as they did back in our day. Now they give chemo first then remove the tumor.

Everyday we get a little bit closer! Cure!