| Breast cancer does not stop when you get older. | | | | women still pay a very high price. Because of |
| If you are young and healthy then your chances | | | | their age and because of the fact that they are |
| are good. You can do treatment, take medication | | | | probably not as healthy as a twenty or thirty |
| and live with the side effects because you are | | | | year old woman, their chances are lower. |
| otherwise healthy. | | | | What if the poor health condition does not allow a |
| But what when you get diagnosed with cancer | | | | surgery? There are many women in this situation. |
| when your overall health is bad or when you are | | | | Their only chance is probably a radiation |
| over sixty already? Sometimes life can be very | | | | treatment and some drugs. What are their |
| hard and unfair to us. But is cancer not always | | | | chances? |
| unfair? If a woman gets breast cancer at a | | | | It all depends on the stage, hormone status, if the |
| young age then we call it a tragedy. And it truly is. | | | | cancer has spread and where etc. We all know |
| Is it less of a tragedy when a woman at the age | | | | that. But often it is the hard true facts that limit |
| of sixty gets breast cancer just because her | | | | or destroy any hope that is left. Many women |
| career may probably already lie behind her and | | | | today can put all hope into treatment. If they |
| her children have already grown up? I think this is | | | | take you that, what is left? |
| not a discussion we should have at all. These older | | | | |