@A MyBCTeam Member - don't be reading and/or posting that stuff especially when it's that old. My oncologist told me not to pay attention to any of that as new meds come out everyday and those statistics are way out of whack. Please don't post out of date statistics (or any statistics like that) when no one can predict how each individuals cancer will react to each medication. There are so many variables (hormone positive, HER2 positive, triple negative, triple positive) plus which organs the cancer has spread to. According to your statistics, I personally would only have a few months left and I'm not buying that.

Ladies! Wrong mindset! I was given 6 months to live at birth with thymus cancer in 1954, and 2months to live with liver 33 YEARS later. I am now almost 62!!!!! Get second opinions, search for alternative answers, don't ever give up! I am living proof of that.

Statistics are only relavent when mapping out a treatment plan, my dear. It's the bread and butter of science, one that looks entirely to the past for guidance on, not how to move forward, but whether or not to move forward In a particular direction. And, at that, singularly through the lense of Cost vs Benefit.

So. You are a mortal with the will to live, which an analystic program does not possess.
You are a mortal who looks to the future in all ways, positively and negatively; never the less, it's toward the future, which is diametric to the statistical process.

We, as flesh and blood, have little business utilizing statistics for any more than what direction is best to face. We, as flesh and blood, are responsible for walking in the sun and no more.
There's no such thing as living in statistics, it's not possible. You intend to live or don't intend to live. And that will rarely, if ever, line up with what somebody else's past has projected for you in an algorithm.

((Big hug))

I am 5 years out on Sept 27th. There is an Inflammatory Breast Cancer organization. Google it Lots of good info. I know people 5, 10,15 years out and more

@A MyBCTeam Member, that may be the statistics, but the creator has the final word on how long we will live.