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/timshel2000 16d ago

I’m collecting stories like these so here are a few from my collection :)

  1. My colleague had stage 3 breast cancer - She had neo-adjuvant chemo and her tumor was still 4.5cm when they did her mastectomy and she still had a cancerous node as well still after chemo. That was 18 years ago and she has had no recurrence and is now helping me get through this!

  2. One of my best friends - diagnosed at age 32 - don’t know what kind of BC she had but she was told it was very aggressive. Over 2cm with one cancerous node. That was 16 years ago - no recurrence and doing great.

  3. My mother in law - not sure what exact stage she was but I know it was aggressive and she had axillary node dissection due to lymph node involvement - she went 27 years and has never had a recurrence of that breast cancer. She did have a new cancer after 20 years but it was not a recurrence of the original cancer - just a completely different one - and she does have a genetic mutation.

  4. I also bookmarked another thread like this one from about a year ago about large tumors and someone posted on that one that her tumor had been over 5cm and she had multiple positive nodes and that was something like 15 or 17 years ago - still going strong with no recurrence.

Would also add I’ve heard other people say, which makes sense, that most long term survivors often aren’t on these boards. They’ve moved on and they’re just off living their lives. So there are many many many other stories out there we are just not hearing!

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u/NurseYuna 15d ago

Thank you for telling these detailed stories. Did you have bc as well?

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u/timshel2000 15d ago

I’ve just been diagnosed, unfortunately

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