We don't exactly know by how much, but on the order of 17 to 20 years. She has psychic and psychological supports, if appropriate, and her life span has increased. MUKHERJEE: In 2010, she avails a surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapy. Even a few centuries ago, she might have been subjected to crude surgery that could have killed her. INSKEEP: In ancient times, people didn't even have the word cancer. SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE: And let's imagine moving her through time, across centuries, and asking the question on what happens to her in 1622? What happens to her in 1722, and so forth? It turns out that her prognosis, her diagnosis, and the way that her disease went changes drastically over time. That centuries old case got cancer doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee thinking. She had symptoms that sounded very much like breast cancer. An ancient historian wrote of a Persian queen who fell ill.
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