America’s five-year survival rate for breast cancer has increased to 90 percent in recent years, but people with metastatic breast cancer (MBC)—breast cancer that has spread to other organs in the body—face a vastly different prognosis, with a five-year survival of only 28 percent.i
With a rise in postponed mammography screenings early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have seen an increase in advanced breast cancer cases, including MBC.
The experience of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer is much different than for people diagnosed in early stages because there is no cure once breast cancer has spread to other organs. Patients live with daily struggles, with treatment and doctor’s appointments for the rest of their lives, and often feel overlooked in the pink ribbon movement about survivorship.
MBC patients live with disease every day and want to create awareness every day of the year, not just during the pink-ribbon fueled Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in October.
In this interview, Dr. Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy, medical oncologist at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, shares information about MBC, and the importance of keeping the conversation year-round for greater awareness.
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