When it Comes to Metastatic Breast Cancer, Six Years is Not Enough
Patients with stage 4 need so much more. All I want is more time, because six years is just not enough.
I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in March 2014 at the age of 38. Over these last six years, I have met many other women who too have a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer.
Some were diagnosed at an early stage and metastasized. Others, like myself, were de novo. Some were younger, some were older, and some were close to my age. But, none of these things matter much. The one common thing we share is an incurable, rotten disease.
I recently found out that another one of my acquaintances has died of metastatic breast cancer. She was younger than I am and had fought just as hard as I have. She too lived with cancer for the past six years. She did everything she could, and it still wasn’t enough.