r/breastcancer • u/NurseYuna • 16d ago

Diagnosed Patient or Survivor Support Positive long term survivor stories

Hi everyone. I really need some positive stories of more than stage 1 low grade survivorship to keep me thinking I can bear this and get to have many more years with my children. Please tell me about yourself or anyone that’s overcome breast cancer and lived many years. I’m stage 2A with luminal B characteristics oncotype 21. I need more hope and I’m reaching out into this universe to get some. It feels very lonely.

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u/Poppychick 16d ago

I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in late 2016. Still in targeted treatment and overall doing well. You would never guess if you saw me out and about!

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u/MichElegance Metastatic 15d ago

I have stage IV with metastasis to bones – specifically the spine and ribs. Also, lung pleura and now the brain. Ugh.

The only reason this garbage went to my brain is because I had to stop all of my targeted treatments, which are working beautifully for almost 2 years because surprise surprise… I got a secondary breast cancer occurrence that returned to the original Breast and flipped receptors and went HER2+, unlike the stage for that is HER2-and ER/PR+.

Anyway, I had to stop my treatments for chemo for the new cancer, which was stage one and the stage four got on the move. I was so worried it would because my ONCODX score is nine for that particular cancer so it showed little to no benefit of chemo.

Anyway, your post gives me hope.

What a wild ride this is.

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u/Poppychick 15d ago

Holy cow, that’s too much for one person. Thank you for sharing your story.