Monday, April 6, 2015
effectiveness of chemo at five years report
small sample, irrelevant for cancers where chemo is not typically used, but
http://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/contribution-of-chemotherapy-to-5-year-survival.pdf
Thanks #AnnahSobelman for leading me to this line of questioning.
Very Overdue Update
I started this blog when I was diagnosed.
After graduating to one mammogram a year, I found that insurance coding had changed -- that while *screening* mammograms annually are free, if they find something (which they always do --) it is "diagnostic", and so not completely covered -- i.e., "well the screening mammogram was covered, they found something scary, and did an ultrasound, which we aren't going to cover 100%". Wha? You are doing this to someone who has had breast cancer?
In any event, I was put on watch and wait diagnostic mammograms every six months (again) last fall. None of which are covered completely. Scheduling the new one now --
Because of all of this, I'm menopausal, which is cool --
So, at what's supposed to be the five year mark, I'm not five years clear, and some of my friends -- have gotten masses in different parts of their bodies -- and were informed that chemo only works for two years. Going to look that up and report back!
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