When Lisa Dutton was declared free of breast cancer in 2017, she took a moment to celebrate with family and friends, even though she knew her cancer journey might not be over. As many as one-third of people whose breast tumours are cleared see the disease come back, sometimes decades later. Many other cancers are known to recur in the years following an initial treatment, some at much higher rates.
The 67-year-old veteran journalist told her podcast listeners Thursday that the returning cancer was discovered in its earliest phase but had adhered a little bit to my pelvis. I have it again but it's being very well managed and so this is one of the whole things that people have to understand about some cancers, Amanpour said on Thursday's episode of the Changing the Ovarian Cancer Story podcast.