Metastatic Breast Cancer Explained

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pfizer’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall explains metastatic breast cancer, a condition that affects nearly 250,000 Americans, most of whom are women. Learn the common misconceptions about the disease, and meet a cancer patient who isn’t letting her diagnosis keep her down.

[Coopdizzle]

Thank you for this. So many people are misinformed about metastatic breast cancer. I am 34 and in hospice. My triple negative breast cancer spread to everything but my liver. It might be there and I wouldn't know. They don't do scans or blood work in hospice. People need to be educated and even more so younger women. I was 31 when I found my original lump.

[nolimitnati]

my sister just got diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. i’m so heartbroken i don’t know what to do or how to care for her. i wish she would’ve gotten the lump checked when she first found it. i still am not sure when that was but i found out now that it was more than 5 months ago. I do not know who to talk to this is so hard to see her go through this. Today she got her port put in and a drainage to drain the fluid from her lung that continues to fill. I gave her, her first wash cloth bath today at the hospital and felt completely helpless while she cried and I tried to comfort her. But one thing I do know is that she will NOT go through this alone.

[KidnapSix]

God.. my mom just died from this in December 1st 2016... I hate to think this show is for entertainment... she was first diagnosed in around 1999.. had a double mastectomy and chemotherapy... but it came back and I'm crying about it thinking of this... I miss her so much. Even if the doctors clear you from cancer. MAKE sure you are scanned and checked every year.. when her cancer came back it was all in her bones throughout her entire body. Please make sure you get yourselves checked

[rahulshah]

11 years wow! Male breast cancer survivor looking at possible bone metastasis.

[peter]

PLEASE HELP my wife has just today been diagnosed with this exact same cancer. We are told she has 2 to 4 years to live. She is only 52 we live in Australia. Can you please advise on the medication/treatment this lady is having?
Regards
Peter

[swwannaa]

I’m 31 and just got diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer with mets to the bone. It’s devastating ...im so heart broken. My health has always been a top priority.

[usegmail]

Out of curiosity, was Noreen triple negative?  Would that have a difference in her length in survival?

[gkaybee]

It would be gr8 if Mrs.Noureen can inform the details of the Phase 1 drug study that benefited her and other treatments she has been taking for so long. Lots and lots of patients like her may benefit. God bless Mrs. Noureen for a long long life. Hope I can get in touch with Mrs. Noureen for the sake of my own family member affected by breast cancer

[ashleyjackson]

My best buddy friend who had been diagnosed with breast cancer in year of 2020. I am so worried and nervous about my best buddy friend because my grandfather passed away from esophagus cancer on October 30, 2018.

[chocolatcats]

To the Dr whose speaking. I have watched your show since the beginning. Even you on the Bachelor and thankfully you didn't pick one of them....About this show. I like it, however, its not long enough and above all, its not enough time on one subject and considering the need for EDUCATING US...I think you and your team needs to investigate videos like Dr. Robert Morse, Dr. Axe, Susana Home remedies, Suzanne Somers, Eric Berg, Mark James Gordon, and a few others who speak of things most don't speak SERIOUS STUFF TELLING US WE CAN HEAL and how WHAT DR'S SAY WE CAN'T!....i THINK THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS SUBJECT (CANCERS AND HEALING) ETC PLEASE THINK ABOUT of the subjects spoken on your show are not needed. Your staff needs to READ UP ON THE SHORT LIST I MADE HERE. You're a young Dr. And you can be one of the first to do this and get serious about your skin Dr can be included because the lymphatic system etc he understands what it does to skin etc.

[kjg]

Sadly, Noreen Fraser lost her battle with MBC in 2017.

[donttalktomeyoureannoying]

Cancer can outsmart the drug! Very insightful

[DaveSolazzo]

Immunotherapy is being studied for breast cancer. It might be an eventual cure.