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