Recurrence rate and stage IV survival rate: UK Study

Depression Alert!!!!   Don't read it if you don't like ugly, cruel, barbaric stats.   It's about a sneaky, ugly, cruel, barbaric disease called metastatic breast cancer:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/12/breast-cancer-recurrence-study-macmillan?newsfeed=true

Notice for early stagers diagnosed around 2000, 10 year recurrence rate is 20+%.  AND the worse than recurrence rate: the life expectancy of the recurred patients: they survived for an average of 17.9 months after being diagnosed for a second time.

Breast cancer has no cure/survivors, ladies, sorry to pop your pinkwashed bubble.    The chemos you are on are mostly 20,30 years old.    The hormone therapies you are on are 10-30 years old as well.   Herceptin is 10+ years old.   Newer drugs extend life by months, not even years, let alone decades.

Prevention is an expensive deadend that took 30 years to get to this.   Support metavivor or metastatic breast cancer research and join clinical trials.   Try earmark your donation to go straight to scientists/graduate students or specific research.