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Article: Women & living with breast cancer today.
- Article from:
- National Women's Health Report
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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When Arlene Dobren's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer 30 years ago, the cancer had already spread to her liver. She died a year later at age 62. Conversely, when Ms. Dobren herself was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 during a routine mammogram, she underwent a breast-conserving lumpectomy followed by chemotherapy and radiation and remained cancer-free for nine years.
When the cancer recurred last year--picked up during a routine chest X-ray--doctors quickly eased Ms. Dobren's panic, telling her that these days, metastatic breast cancer can be treated as a chronic disease. While she would have cancer for the rest of her life, they said, life could be ...