The fear of recurrence

I know it’s so worrying but everyone’s cancer type is different, the treatment they received, it’s just difficult to say why they had a recurrence and if you will. 

I do a lot of research all the time and I still don’t quite understand why people get a recurrence. If it was contained in one area at diagnosis how does it suddenly appear in another body part years later and kill you. What I would say is that treatment is evolving all the time especially for met breast cancer it’s getting a lot of attention in the research world. 

I know it’s easy to say don’t worry because we always will be try to think about all the people who haven’t had a recurrence, it’s a lot more than you think xx 

I think they are now busy researching the influence of stress on cancer. I maintain it was a factor in mine; my first was following a stressful time looking after daughter and hubs, daughter had a primary refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma which took over 7 years to gain a remission, then followed by a donor stem cell transplant. This was while she was 160 miles away from home, and my hubs was disabled. I felt like a yo-yo! 

Then I had my first bc. Had a year clear of drugs during which time hubs’ arthritis got a good bit worse and then he developed kidney cancer which took him in 10 months. Yes a while later I got a recurrence, the beast had sneaked beneath the implant I’d had. 

Hopefully I’m clear now as I’m flat of course. But it’s always at the back of my mind….

hugs xxx