Lynne, I offer this as, I hope, comforting words to you:

My mother in law had breast cancer in her late fifties. In her late seventies she also was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She lived a happy, pain free life which was normal in every way until her death.

She was 87 when she passed away and it was not from cancer.

Cancer is not always an automatic death sentence.

[ February 18, 2006, 01:26 PM: Message edited by: ladybug ]