Cancer in the News #2: Hope, recommendations, progress, and coronavirus

Kaiulani Facciani
4 min readAug 1, 2020

Breast Cancer

Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis: ‘A Catastrophic Complication of Breast Cancer’
“The risk for leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is greater with more aggressive tumors, such as triple-negative and HER2-positive [tumors], and it is also greater for patients who have very extensive bone metastases.”
and my two cents: Nasty, nasty diagnosis. Still… I am living proof it is survivable…
Increased Risk for Invasive Breast Cancer After DCIS
“a new analysis shows that any diagnosis of DCIS, even…

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Kaiulani Facciani

Stage 4 breast cancer thriver, now NoActiveDisease after being given just weeks to live 3 different times. www.kaiulanifacciani.com, www.whatididanddoandwhy.com