I was first diagnosed with cancer 20 years ago. I was given 6 months to live by my doctors. This was because I had inflammatory breast disease. At the time of my diagnosis, 85% of those with this condition were dead within 18 months. The 5 year surival rates were abysmal.
Yet here I am.
Yes, in that time frame I have had two more cancer recurrences.
The first was about 6 years ago, when I had a ductal carcinoma and got a mastectomy. More recently, about 2 1/2 years ago, I was diagnosed with metastatic brain cancer.