Why Haven't We Found a Cure for Breast Cancer? Oncologist Explains

[@peterwilliams6361]

Living with an incurable disease is so hard, but you just have to live life day by day as it goes by (Cancer sucks)...

[@peterwilliams6361]

@David Velasquez wow, how can i get in touch with her? this healer, does she cure other sickness

[@peterwilliams6361]

@David Velasquez wow, found her website, thank you very much for this.

[@yerbba]

You are indeed correct that cancer sucks. We could not agree more.

[@nonyabiness4023]

My oncologist just told me May 5th I’m cured from triple negative breast cancer! Finally! I pray it stays away forever this time. That was my 2nd time having it. Strong chemotherapy and bilateral mastectomy was my treatment plan. Taxotere and cytoxan! It was rough but worth it to hear cured! Thank you for these helpful videos through this journey! 💕🌷

[@yerbba]

Wishing you all the best, and thank you for writing.

[@shakinahs]

Hey Jera, thanks for sharing. Wonderful news to be cured. I am currently going through treatment now for TNBC called Trodelvy but oncologist thinking of a new treatment called Enhertu. I had a double mastectomy last year in March. My second time having breast cancer. First time was about 7 years ago, Hers 2 positive. I hear tnbc is hard to treat. May I ask how long you underwent these treatments?

[@donnacampbell6345]

Thank you for your video. Most people don’t understand how cancer cells really work and so they have unrealistic expectations of cure. But we are so glad of good treatments (yep, brutal but nevertheless good) that give us years that we wouldn’t otherwise have had.

[@yerbba]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment.

[@meahdahlgren6537]

Donnacampbell6345❤❤❤

[@sueu6263]

Up to now breast cancer IS NOT CURABLE! It might be treatable but it seems to come back, sooner or later. It’s very disconcerting considering the fact that so much money is being spent on BC, and yet. I’m still waiting. And the treatments” could “ be brutal to many women. I pray and hope for new solutions .

[@yerbba]

We share your desire for better treatments. It is the case that many many people are cured of breast cancer. For stage 1 breast cancer, for example, over 90% of people are cured.

[@juaquiene7726]

Sue, I sadly have to agree with you. On many of your points. Perhaps a woman can be cured when the cancer is caught super early. However for the majority. By the time a woman notices a lump. It's already stage 2 or higher. Some cancers spread super fast involving lymph nodes etc. Then there's the subject of Chemo / radiation. Some of which has remained the same since the 70's. Is so toxic. Death occurs from damage done to the heart lungs, kidneys & liver. Then it can be claimed she died from other causes other than cancer. What's really madening we have found cures for Aids & Ebola even COVID is not the killer it was. For all that I'm grateful. Now we watch Oncology waiting rooms fill up with younger and younger women. Most of them very health conscious. Their slender and active, don't drink or smoke have always been careful to eat a balanced diet. There's so many Go Fund me cases on You Tube where we get to see young women die before our eyes. Leaving behind grieving husbands and babies. There needs to be explanation, and accountability for what's going on. This is a tragic epidemic. I'm 65. At least I've had a go at life got to raise my son's. I accept I have this disease now. But I can't accept all these young girls. It used to be start getting mammograms yearly at 40. Now it's if you have something to put in a bra you better get it checked out😢

[@icilmaa]

@@yerbba Do you mean 10% had a recurrence and 90% didn't? Over what time span is this?

[@naththomas9946]

Thank you for your medical advice.

[@yerbba]

Thank you for watching.

[@jennypangalanko]

very informative ... thank you

[@yerbba]

Thank you for watching and your comment.

[@debrn4168]

We are doing better in the area of mammograms. This technology has come a far way. Now we can get 2D and 3D mammograms making it even more likely to find cancer early. This was the case in my cancer. The 3D mammogram was able to see the small mass that may of not have been seen in the technology we used many years ago. I am grateful for this because it caught my cancer at a very early stage.

[@yerbba]

It's truly wonderful to hear that advancements in mammogram technology played a crucial role in detecting your cancer at an early stage. Your experience underscores the importance of these advancements in early detection and, ultimately, improved outcomes. Thank you for watching!

[@Cheryl-t7b]

A mammogram also caught my invasive ductal carcinoma early. My tumor is so small it's likely older technology would almost certainly have missed it.

[@oluwafunmilayo5973]

Good day, Doctor. I'm in Nigeria and I just completed my 5weeks radiotheraphy treatment last week after 10 rounds of chemotherapy and surgery. I sustained some wound under my armpit and on the surgery stitches on my left chest. I have been given a cream for that. My question is how and when do I start trying for conception because I don't have any children yet and I'm over forty years? Also, I have been placed on Tamoxifen before surgery.

[@yerbba]

We would recommend that you talk with an expert in fertility as soon as possible. Tamoxifen should not be given in someone who is trying to conceive because it can cause birth defects. If your team thinks that delaying tamoxifen is safe, you can start tamoxifen after pregnancy. For some people, the risk of recurrence is high enough that delaying tamoxifen is not in the person's best interest.

[@audhym596]

Hi there, please what’s the name of the cream you were given i guess to minize your scar?

[@natasha3210]

Hi De Jenn,kindly explain on stages of breast cancer ..is all cancer in the lymph node stage 3..what constitutes stage 3

[@yerbba]

Stage III (3) breast cancer is either a tumor over 5 cm and/or 4 or more positive lymph nodes. We have a Stage III breast cancer video in production as I write this, so keep coming back to our channel.

[@suzansadie8185]

Thank you for your help. Iwent from Stage 1 Grade 1 ductal carcinoma in site to a metastatic breast cancer in my lungs stage 4. Am on Abemacyclib and Letrazol. Can you direcxt me to any sites that you think mioght offer me further support?

[@yerbba]

Keep following our channel. Other good sites are breastcancer.org, and the national cancer institute also has information. You can also drop in a comment about topics you would like us to cover on our channel.

[@manishaingle-hf1ol]

In how many years?

[@suzansadie8185]

@@manishaingle-hf1ol In how many yeards what? I dont understand what you are asking

[@manishaingle-hf1ol]

@@suzansadie8185 I mean your cancer journey from stage almost 0 to stage 4

[@manishaingle-hf1ol]

@@suzansadie8185 I mean your cancer journey from almost stage 0 to.stage 4

[@DCS_DCS]

Helpful one Doctor

[@yerbba]

Thank you for watching and your comment.

[@prantikroy5771]

What is the upcoming trial therapy are coming on her2 positive breast cancer

[@yerbba]

There are always new studies for all types of breast cancer. It's not clear which particular study you're thinking of. Write back?

[@christmercy555]

In January this year I was told that I had stage 4 breast cancer which had spread to my spine after MRI and CT scan, I started my first cycle late February of palbociclib and letrozole and calcium supplements after my fourth cycle I went for fdg pet CT scan and they didn't find any met to the bones my worry is there was no surgery done and the breast tumors are too small please advise

[@jugni1992]

Well stats are one thing but mine was caught early and told 98% chance of no recurrence. Well 3 years later came back on other side more aggressive and a second cancer - not a recurrence. This 5 year protocol here in the UK also leaves you put there and not detected early.

[@yerbba]

Indeed! Stats are one thing, but we are all an n of 1. It sounds as if your first cancer has not recurred, so in your case, the statistics were applicable. The second cancer is independent of the first one.

[@EnestoJames]

must say that I have enormous respect for you Dr kanayo Peterson considering the manner in which my wife receive her complete treatment for HIV infection, thanks for coming to my rescue sir.

[@yerbba]

We are happy that you're finding the videos helpful.

[@commonsense6967]

I'm 73, never had cancer, but plenty of unnecessary callbacks, repeat 3D mammograms and unnecessary biopsies. Looking forward to turning 74, when according to the American College of Radiology, after that age there is no evidence that routine mammograms extend life. That info. is posted in the waiting room of my local mammogram facility! (I'm so excited! Free at last!)

[@yerbba]

The toll of call backs, biopsies, the anxiety they cause is not trivial. Thank you for sharing your experience.

[@HL-qv3yd]

Is it that cancer stem cells that survive from treatments and comes back?

[@yerbba]

It may be the case that stem cells are more resistant to therapy and that stem cells (undifferentiated cells) are the reason we haven't been able to cure more people.

[@meahdahlgren6537]

Hlqv3yd❤❤

[@irumnisar350]

Macro calcific foci benign what further please

[@yerbba]

Macrocalcific foci are generally considered benign. Many tissues in our body have calcium (not related to dietary calcium), and there are characteristic patterns on mammography that can indicate a benign process.

[@HL-qv3yd]

Dear dr, stage 4 breast cancer can go to sleep? And what is that mean for the patients? And early diagnosis is good but er positive 30% comes back metastatic and 6 or 10% diagnose de novo, that's huge number of patients humans life, why all the money efforts goes to early detection but why they dont try to found a cure or at list make it chronic like diabetes metastatic breast cancer? Because not everyone detecting early😔, ❤ thank you

[@yerbba]

Such a great point. We are working really hard on beating cancer. You're right…not everyone is diagnosed early.

[@HL-qv3yd]

Thank you so much Dr.

[@dirty_truth290]

Oncology Medicine routinely overstates the benefits of; Radiation, Chemo, et al. While grossly marginalizing the risks. #sad.

[@yerbba]

#partlytrue. Many physicians do overestimate the benefits of their treatment. There is no attempt to deceive. Rather, doctors tend to believe in what they do and have seen many many people be cured of their disease. Doctors also do hear and listen to their patients' reports of side effects. There is most decidedly a role for humility in medicine.

[@kathysteiner9468]

Why haven't they found a medication that is easier on the female body. The damage Anastrozole and Tamoxifen have done to my body is just not worth it for me

[@yerbba]

We agree that we have to do better. It was just over 100 years ago that people with advanced breast cancer would have their adrenal gland and sometimes their pituitary glands removed, which wrecked havoc on the body. In general, medications are considered preferred to removal of essential glands in our body. Despite this progress, we still have a long way to go!

[@prantikroy5771]

CAR T cell therapy is suitable for her2, positive breast cancer

[@yerbba]

There is no role for CAR T treatment for breast cancer at this point. The promise of CAR T we've seen in hematologic malignancies has not carried over to solid tumors yet.

[@heatherdufault6578]

Could you please discuss the relationship between cancer and deep vein thrombosis? I am curious about this because I am 3 years NED from breast cancer, but have now recently had DVT in one of my lower legs. I'm being treated for this, and am doing well--but I am wondering how much of a concern this is for me ongoing? (I am a very youthful 70-year-old and in excellent physical shape as an amateur athlete...)

[@yerbba]

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) can sometimes occur during cancer treatment, especially since chemotherapy can increase blood clotting risks. With time, we have a greater risk of DVT. Tamoxifen also increases the risk of DVT. Finally, while it is unlikely in your case, a DVT can be seen with cancer recurrence. Making sure your oncology team is aware of your DVT would be important.

[@heatherdufault6578]

@yerbba thank you; for sure I will let them know...

[@bradbuck4691]

Apricot seeds are your cure.

[@yerbba]

Despite some claims, apricot seeds are absolutely not a cure for cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warnings against companies marketing apricot seeds and amygdalin products as cancer "cures," stating that these products are fraudulent and potentially dangerous. Apricot seeds should not be consumed in large quantities due to the risk of cyanide poisoning. It's important to rely on scientifically proven treatments and discuss all potential therapies with your healthcare provider.

[@kjtj397]

@@yerbbasource or you’re lying for profit

[@juliadonovan5798]

I'm new to watching your videos. Thanks to you and everyone who comments. First cancer 7 years ago. Triple negative, lumpectomy, chemo and radiation. Second occurrence, 9 months ago. Chemo, removal of one breast, more chemo. Doing pretty well considering . Trying to be positive and stay active. I'll be 64 in a few days! Have good support from family and friends. Always happy to hear survivors of tnbc in remission!