Information about breast cancer
Metastases... what now?
Malignant cells can invade other tissues. In this way, cancer cells can break away from the original tumor and be carried along with the blood or lymph. There they can settle in other places in the body and continue to divide. Thus, they form a new tumor somewhere else in the body.
What is secondary cancer?
Secondary cancer is cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.
Where can these metastases occur?
Breast cancer can metastasize to many other organs. But when metastases do occur, it is usually in the liver, lungs, brain or bones.
If the cancer has spread to the lungs, are we talking about lung cancer?
Cancer that metastasizes remains a cancer from where the disease originally originated. Thus, breast cancer that metastasizes to the lungs remains breast cancer.
How can we recognize metastases?
The symptoms that occur depend on the organs where the metastases have developed. A doctor can help you further with symptoms.
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“Breast cancer isn’t just a women’s issue”: Stef (63) wants to break the taboo
October 7 is International Men’s Breast Cancer Day. In our society, a breast cancer diagnosis is often associated with women. Yet in Belgium, 100 men are diagnosed with the disease every year. Stef is 63 and discovered a lump in his breast three years ago. Since then, he has been working to break the taboo. “It can happen to anyone—including men.”
Hereditary breast cancer is a sword of Damocles
Author and columnist Nele Reymen - sister of radio host Ann Reymen - will soon undergo a preventive double mastectomy and reconstruction. Like both her sisters, Nele Reymen is a carrier of a breast cancer gene. The sisters previously opted for the procedure. True hereditary breast cancer is sometimes confused with familial breast cancer. Both involve genes and yet there is a world of difference.
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