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metastatic breast cancer in 2004.

Her cancer was already in her lymph nodes at the time of her initial diagnosis. It was an extremely aggressive cancer, and eventually, two and a half years from diagnosis, went into her cerebrospinal fluid. Her cranial nerves were affected, despite the use of direct infusion of chemo into her brain.

She was asymptomatic in April, began to lose her leg strength suddenly in May, that worsened over the next few months, they did the Ommaya port into her brain in August, and it went straight downhill into hospice for 10 days and death on Oct. 3.

Metastatic breast cancer to the CSF is unsurvivable at this point in medical treatment.

I see lots of breast cancer drugs being touted that might have been helpful for her, but I don't think the stats have changed much for metastatic breast cancer since she died in 2004.

That is a travesty. Women deserve better medical treatment for this deadly disease.

Every woman knows at least one other woman who has/has had breast cancer. It hangs over all our heads.

The incentive is there to create the drug or the treatment that fixes this, so why isn't it happening? Is it too lucrative to treat instead of cure?

My paranoia is seriously snagged by this unsolved problem.

I don't get it.