Tauranga resident and long-term letter writer Robin Bishop shares her story of her battle with an aggressive stage 4 cancer. A few months ago I wrote of my battle with an aggressive stage 4 cancer and my ongoing treatment with chemotherapy. I remember, very naively, asking what stage cancer went to and was told "stage 4". In the case of my particular cancer, a normal well woman will have a marker number of 35 and below. My highest marker number was 1430 and with chemotherapy it came down week by week to just 6.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 29, 2017 07:01 UTC