How Long Do You Have To Live With Stage 4 Breast Cancer?

How long are you expected to live with stage 4 breast cancer when it has spread  to the neck, lymph nodes, and stomach?

My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer 16 years ago when she was 42 (and I was 14). She has been stage 4 breast cancer for 13 years when it came back in her bones.  She then had a stem cell transplant (in 1997-1998) and the cancer continues to spread throughout her bones (ribs, femur, spine, hip, skull etc) ... But ever so slowly.  It is picking up the pace and we are waiting on results that it may (or most likely) have spread to your brain which means that our time with her is limited.  But it is a miracle that she is still around.  They didn't think she would make it to see me graduate from high school... Then they didn't think she would make it to 50... Well she will be 59 in October of his year... She saw both me and my younger brother graduate from high school and college... She danced at my wedding and she is still here today.  Will she see 60 or meet any future grandchildren?  Maybe not, but she certainly outlived the expiration date that her doctors originally gave her.  Just don't give up hope... No matter how grave the prediction.