Long term treatment group

I am in a similar, although not identical, situation. My breast cancer treatment included a full year of different types of chemo and five surgeries, and that's on top of a diagnosis of one of the blood cancers. At the moment I am treatment-free but not phenomena-free, and my breast oncologist says that recovery, for me, will take double to quadruple the time it takes most people "thanks" to the huge amount of chemo and to having these surgeries in the space of one year. I am thankful for not having to do treatment at the moment but I am struggling, and there are no guarantees that the treatment "holiday" is forever. As far as breast cancer is concerned I am probably the same as everyone else who is counting time, but I also have the joy of not knowing if/when the blood cancer might pounce. So for me, it's the long haul too, although for different reasons.

I am curious about something: since there are no mets, why the stage 4 diagnosis?

I had distant met to neck nodes while on herceptin so that’s why on tdm1 .. I was confused too