DeSantis announces Florida first lady is cancer-free

[Calista241]

Source: The Hill

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced on Thursday that his wife, first lady Casey DeSantis, is cancer-free.

DeSantis revealed in October that the first lady had been diagnosed with breast cancer. In January, the governor said she completed her chemotherapy treatment.

“I have a positive update about my wife, Casey DeSantis. After going through both treatment and surgery for breast cancer, she is now considered cancer-free,” the governor said in a video posted to Twitter.

The governor said the first lady “still has more to do,” but he said he is “confident she’s gonna make a full recovery.”

In a retweet of the governor’s video, Casey DeSantis said “There are no words to express how truly blessed, grateful and humbled I am to hear the words cancer free.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/596781-desantis-announces-that-florida-first-lady-is-cancer-free

[dchill]

1. And you can believe that, because...

...why?

[orwell]

2. Great news...

...except she still has a giant puss filled growth on her arm.

Just sayin...

[zipplewrath]

3. Good

I'm happy for her that science based, FDA and CDC approved treatments were able to contribute to her reaching this condition.

[IcyPeas]

15. exactly!

[ificandream]

40. Same here.

As someone who has had to deal with someone with breast cancer, I'm glad for him even if I can't stand him.

[SouthernDem4ever]

4. Sounds like he'll be the only cancer left

on the entire state.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Hope she gets Covid in her immunocompromised condition so they can learn a big fat fuckin lesson.

I would love to say “TOLD YOU SO YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!”

[TheProle]

33. What a shitty comment.

[Lucky Luciano]

35. I have unbounded hatred for those people

[TheProle]

36. You must...

Feel how you like. I find it reprehensible.

[Lucky Luciano]

37. Duly noted

[Mike Nelson]

6. Yay!

... happy to hear she is in good health. I want the same for her husband... good health and long lives to both, so they can see how bad ideas fail and good ones win!

[BradAllison]

7. Fuck both of them n/m

[TeamProg]

8. You're next Ron ! Thre Big C is coming after the rest of your brain.. n/t

[Rebl2]

9. Only four

months of chemo for breast cancer? I thought chemo for BC went on for many months, sometimes a year. Guess it depends on what type of BC a person has.

[forthemiddle]

12. My girlfriend finishes her chemo next week

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in October. She started her chemotherapy in November, and has her last treatment next week! So 4 months sounds correct.

[Ms. Toad]

20. I had no chemo.

I did have radiation. (Although if I could make the choice again, I would not have had radiation.)

A lot depends on what type of cancer you have.

I'm 6 years out, and just learned that my cancer has only a 2.9% chance of returning - so I can even avoid another 5 years of nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitors.

My spouse was in the original study which demonstrated the preventative strength of tamoxifen (cut short because it was so effective it would have been unethical to continue to give some women placebos). Now, genetic testing is able to sort out whether it is beneficial to stop at 5 years - or continue for 10. I'm in the former category. So as of September, I'm done with even preventative care.

I only wish we had the typing and predictive tools for the sarcoma I developed just as I hit 5 years from my breast cancer diagnosis.

[Mz Pip]

24. I didn't have chemo, either

Mine was caught really early and hadn’t spread. I had 5 treatments of targeted radiation and will take Arimidex for 4 more years. Early detection makes a huge difference.

[Ms. Toad]

26. Early detection, tumor type, and age at diagnosis all can make a difference.

I have three friends/relatives whose tumors were caught early - but their tumors were very aggressive. All 3 needed chemo. One is roughly 10 years out with no reccurrence. The second is very recent - we don't know yet what will happen. The third has had multiple recurrences and metastases, and may be down to months to live.

All three were considerably younger than I was when their tumors were detected - diagnosis at a young age often means a much more aggressive cancer.

[Mz Pip]

30. I was really lucky

I nearly blew off the mammogram because I wanted to go up to the mountains and really why bother at my age… And then there was that Covid thing…

I was told the older you are the less change you have of dying from it, but early detection is still important. I guess a slower metabolism helps.

[Ms. Toad]

38. I think it's more the type of breast cancer which hits at an early age

which impacts whether you die from it. Post-menopausal cancers tend to be much more benign than pre-menopausal.

And early detection is important - but it's also a very relative thing.

My breast cancer tumor had likely been growing for ~ 5 years when I found it and brought it to the attention of the doctors (most of whom could still not find it independently). Post diagnosis, they took their merry time moving toward treatment. If memory serves me right, I was diagnosed in early April - but didn't have surgery until the last week in May. It was (based on imaging) exactly the same size it was when I was diagnosed. They wanted multiple consults with radiology, medical oncologists, genetic typing, cosmetic surgery, etc. before surgery - AND - I fired the first team (and the loss of time to hire a new team concerned no one).

I also have sarcoma (a cancer that is more aggressive than most pre-menopausal breast cancers). It was removed 11 days later after diagnosis. None of the team was willing to wait. It was all - get that thing out. NOW. We'll worry about everything else after it's removed. Cosmetic surgery to repair the 5 cm x 6 cm gash in my arm (from removing a tumor of less than 2 cm)? We're looking at that 2 years down the road.

At the rate the tumor was growing, had I waited the two months I did for breast cancer surgery, the sarcoma would have been between tennis ball and softball sized, and would almost certainly . It was under 1 cm when I found it, but by the first excision it had grown to nearly 2 cm. Most of it was removed, and it was back to around 2 cm for the big surgery. When I discovered it, it had likely been there a matter of weeks (rather than years).

[Gore1FL]

10. So they are divorced, now or does this mean something else? nt

[Polybius]

11. Glad to hear it

Wouldn't wish that on anyone.

[C Moon]

13. ...and yet the GOP is a cancer.

[Skittles]

14. ideally it would make him a better person

it won't

[keithbvadu2]

16. Have FL surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo treat her.

Have FL surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo treat her.

[aeromanKC]

17. But unfortunately she is still inflicted with Ronitisdesantis.

Very debilitating disease leading to ones loss of humanity.

[bagimin]

18. Glad she gets to live...

unlike 70,000 fellow Floridians

[gopiscrap]

19. fuck her...that's too bad

I was rooting for the cancer

[TheProle]

34. Disgusting

[gopiscrap]

42. maybe but assholes like her and that prick of husband she latched onto

don't deserve any sympathy

[Ms. Toad]

21. Cancer-free is probably a little optimistic.

I prefer the term NED (no evidence of disease).

Cancer is not really something that is ever really in your past once you have a cancer diagnosis. I never adopted the "survivor" terminology (a relative of "cancer free&quot in connection with my breast cancer. I've been NED for 5.5 years now. The sarcoma community (my second cancer) uses NED - a much more appropriate term given the need to be ever watchful for a local recurrence, or the previously undetected escape of cancer cells which may plant themselves elsewhere (my lungs are a prime target). I've been NED as to sarcoma for 1.25 years.

I with the same for Casey DeSantis.

[RobinA]

44. Thank You

for mentioning this. I was diagnosed two years ago, am long finished active treatment, and if one more person asks me when the doctor will tell me I'm clear I may punch them. I'm doing my job at education by nicely telling them that with breast cancer you are never "clear." I usually just get silence.

[Ms. Toad]

45. May you stay NED for a very long time!

The breast cancer center I fired rubbed me the wrong way for a number of reasons - one of which is that the very first thing they tell you at your very first support group is that you are a survivor from the moment you are diagnosed.

Really? You got some kind of crystal ball?

I've got friends and family who have been NED for a very long time - my mother has been NED for her first breast cancer for 24 years, and since her second (unrelated to the first) for around 10. For the first time, about a month ago, I heard her say that she doesn't even worry about breast cancer any more. Until then, each time we spoke about it she expressed the opinion that she would likely ultimately die from breast cancer. Even though her mother died in her 80s with, but nor from, metastatic breast cancer, and her grandmother died at around 100 with, but not from, breast cancer.

I also have friends who never reached NED (or reached it only very briefly).

People (both those with cancer and those without) are uncomfortable thinking of any post-treatment status that acknowledges cancer may still be present - even if there is no current evidence of it.

[cstanleytech]

22. Did they divorce?

[Carlitos Brigante]

23. So, she "ditched" the cancer. But decided to stay with the tumor? nt

[sakabatou]

25. And yet, still doesn't give a shit about his fellow Floridians.

[padah513]

27. If it's true I'm glad for her but this is a signature Desantis squirrel move

He stepped in it yesterday so he wants you to look over here today.

[Javaman]

28. she still has him, doesn't she? nt

[IronLionZion]

29. He should spend more time with his family, cherish these moments

and resign

[XanaDUer2]

31. Lucky her for having healthcare

Are taxpayers paying for that?

[jonstl08]

32. Good news

Good news. Not a fan of Desantis but do not want anybody or their family deal with Cancer no matter their politics. Mother died from it 40+ years ago and it means a lot to me.

[ificandream]

41. Agreed.

[lagomorph777]

39. You mean she's divorcing that cancer?

[RobinA]

43. With Breast Cancer

you can never say you are cancer free until you die of something else. It can always come back.