Thursday, March 13, 2008
Breast Cancer - What If You Are Too Old Or Too Sick For A Breast Cancer Surgery?
Breast cancer does not stop when you get older. If you are young and healthy then your chances are good. You can do treatment, take medication and live with the side effects because you are otherwise healthy.
But what when you get diagnosed with cancer when your overall health is bad or when you are over sixty already? Sometimes life can be very hard and unfair to us. But is cancer not always unfair? If a woman gets breast cancer at a young age then we call it a tragedy. And it truly is.
Is it less of a tragedy when a woman at the age of sixty gets breast cancer just because her career may probably already lie behind her and her children have already grown up? I think this is not a discussion we should have at all. These older women still pay a very high price. Because of their age and because of the fact that they are probably not as healthy as a twenty or thirty year old woman, their chances are lower.
What if the poor health condition does not allow a surgery? There are many women in this situation. Their only chance is probably a radiation treatment and some drugs. What are their chances?
It all depends on the stage, hormone status, if the cancer has spread and where etc. We all know that. But often it is the hard true facts that limit or destroy any hope that is left. Many women today can put all hope into treatment. If they take you that, what is left?
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