Laura Van ‘t Veer the inventoress who is making great strides in looking at the tumor that is removed and can now better predict the chance of cancer spreading. Until now the size of the tumor found, the age of the patient, the sharing of cells ( translation of dutch) was the criteria. Now this Dutch invention called Mammaprint is giving more information to metastic growth potential.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1678169_1678157,00.html
I still can’t believe insurance companies will not pay for this new screening!
Posted in breast cancer, cancer, cancer survivor, chemotherapy, life, living with cancer | Tags: 5FU, alternative cancer treatments, blog, blogging, Blogroll, breast cancer, breast cancer awareness, breast cancer diagnosis, Breast cancer premenopausal, breast cancer survival, cancer, cancer cause, cancer life, cancer survivor, dreams, faith, family, good news about cancer, holiday, inspiration, life, living with cancer, long distance care, not a cancer victim, parenting, Paxol, peoples reaction to cancer, photo, photography, politics, premenopausal, premenopausal women with breast cancer, religion, socialized medicine, Taxol, terminal cancer patient, travel, young women cancer
cancervisa