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Mtngrl 01-21-2017 04:31 PM

How Breast Cancer Can Spread Before a Tumor Develops
 
Two studies suggest looking at metastasis differently.

http://journals.lww.com/oncology-tim...a_Tumor.9.aspx

ariana 02-08-2017 04:19 AM

Re: How Breast Cancer Can Spread Before a Tumor Develops
 
I am very tired tonight as I am reading this. IF I am reading it correctly,
I can get over the guilt of not having my breast removed even when I had
good clean margins and two tiny specks, to have it go to my lungs with
6 tiny dots, a year late.

Carol Ann 02-08-2017 08:41 AM

Re: How Breast Cancer Can Spread Before a Tumor Develops
 
Absolutely. Let it go. The cells had already escaped. :(

I have read that a mastectomy lowers your risk of a LOCAL recurrence at the site, but does nothing to prevent or lower the risk of mets to distant organs.

Now we know why.

Carol Ann


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