Breast Cancer Survivor
Living as a survivor.
Breast cancer survivor. I tend to prefer the person first statement person living with. Unless you re a breast cancer survivor yourself there are nuances of the illness that you simply can t prepare for. As such she prefers not to use the term survivor. Where do these numbers come from.
Emily garnett now 34 years old has that late stage form of breast cancer. Living as a breast cancer survivor whether you are living with cancer or living after cancer many women have questions and concerns about life as a survivor. So if a breast mass shows up on a mammogram or is detected during a monthly breast self exam you have already been living with it for some time. Whether you re going through breast cancer firsthand or you know and love.
For example if the 5 year relative survival rate for a specific stage of breast cancer is 90 it means that women who have that cancer are on average about 90 as likely as women who don t have that cancer to live for at least 5 years after being diagnosed.