The survival rate for stage four breast cancer, or what is termed developed breast cancer, is significantly lower than it is for any stage of breast cancer. This is because this cancer has grown and also because it has spread, not only in the area of the breast where it originated, but to other parts of the breasts and also to other parts of the body, the former areas being bone tissue, lung tissue and the liver.
Many medical professionals feel that their studies seem to show that by the time this cancer has reached stage four, it has invaded and overcome the bodies natural defense ideas to such an extent that what is called the five year survival rate has dropped significantly to an average of sixteen to twenty percent.
This belief is backed by the American Cancer Society.
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While this statistic is not written in stone, that is it is not fulfilled in every case, the majority of women who are diagnosed with cancer when the cancer has reached the fourth stage, live on the average for eighteen more months after the preliminary diagnoses.
According to the findings of the American Cancer Society, their statistics seem to indicate that the estimate of women who live beyond this average and live for five years after the former pathology of stage four breast cancer, may well live for an additional one three and a half years.
Breast cancer is a silent killer. It sneaks up on a someone and invades their body and often is not detected until it has for real taken over a major part of the body, prominent to the necessity of very aggressive treatments.
Don't wait until breast cancer has taken over your body to fight back. The best defensive is a good offensive. Check your breasts for lumps on a quarterly monthly basis. If you detect a lump, get it checked out immediately. Have quarterly clinical breast examinations, together with mammograms. Agreeing to the American Cancer community this should happen every three years for women from age twenty to age forty and every year for women past forty.
Don't wait for breast cancer to invade your body. If it does show up, be prepared, catch it early. If you don't catch it early, if it does reach stage four, then fight it intelligently and aggressively and don't give up. Statistics are just that, they're not written in stone and they don't predict your future. To quote Mr. Spock, "Live long and prospter
Stage 4 Breast Cancer Survival Rate
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