Experience I'm a Doctor of Medicine. Licensed/certified physician and surgeon and specialist in Medical
Oncology and Radiation therapy in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and the European Union. Background in Radiation Therapy, Medical Oncology, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology, Gynecological Oncology, Clinical Pathology, Clinical Cytology,Hematology and Internal Medicine.
M.D. from the faculty of medicine, Royal Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Have also been an exchange student at the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem Israel. Former medical consultant, Swedish National Board of Radiation Protection. Former Police Surgeon and Medical Examiner, Stockholm Police Department. Former Chief Medical Officer, The Royal Guards, The Royal Horse Guards and the Royal Household Brigade, Royal Swedish Army Medical Corps. Now in private practice in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Breast Cancer,
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Question my sister in law just found out Saturday, June 20, 2009 that she has breast cancer and stage 4 spinal cancer. What are the treatments if any and and how much time do you think she has. She is only 53 years old. But there is a long history of cancer in her family. Her mother died of breast cancer in her early 30's, and her father died of a brain tumor in his early 60's.
Answer I suppose that what she has is a stage 4 breast cancer that has spread to her spine since that is the most probable interpretation of what you have written. Correct? With a mother who died of breast cancer in her early 30'ies I'm very surprised that she has not herself had regular breast check ups in order to avoid a situation like this or has she? If so how did she arrive at this?! In this situation she needs a mastectomy combined with radiation therapy and chemotherapy and perhaps hormonal therapy. Her spinal lesion needs radiation therapy too. A stage 4 cancer is in principle at present incurable. But it may be controllable using regular chemotherapy and maybe hormonal therapy. However no guarantees are possible.
