Re: Should we remove a left kidney with a tumor if pulmonary lymph nodes are enlarged?
From: Steph (steph_at_vancouver.island)
Date: 11/18/04
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:06:25 GMT
"Eva" <EvaDStructionNO@NOverizon.net> wrote in message
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> "Peter Moran" <moringa@gil.com.au> wrote in message
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>> I don't think "cure" and :"in the clear" are daft, in the right context.
>> You are to all intents and purposes cured of colon, and some other
> cancers,
>> if you are alive and free of cancer five years after treatment. Not so
>> with others, such as breast or melanoma, which can crop up (with
>> ever-decreasing frequency) after many more years. After, say twenty
> years,
>> survivors with those are approaching 100% certainty that they are
> "cured".
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> But only approaching. I know a woman whose breast cancer recurred in the
> other breast after 32 years! She's undergoing treatment for it now.
> She's
> in her late 60s.
>
> Eva
>
>
Breast cancer is unusual in many ways. For the vast majority of the common
cancers, about 90% of recurrences are in the first 2 years
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