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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Genetic cancer: the story of Giuseppina
At the age of 34, Giuseppina was diagnosed with a genetic cancer. She is now 53 and tells us about her journey: "I went through everything," she says with determination, "but all the decisions made turned out to be the right ones." She praises the professionalism of the caregivers, whom she respects greatly, and tells us about the importance of sharing, talking together and building contacts: with people who have lived through all the stages of the disease, which you as a patient are also going through or will go through. In order to get to know their feelings and have a glimpse of your own future.
Triple-negative breast cancer, an outlier
Breast cancer is not a single disease, but a collective term for several malignant conditions of the breast tissue. One of the less common but most aggressive forms is triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). This form occurs in about 15% of women with breast cancer and 5% of men, and remarkably often affects younger patients.
Researchers gain more insight into evolution of pre-stage breast cancer
One in five breast cancers are actually precursors to breast cancer. Because we don't know today which precursors progress to breast cancer and which do not, they are all treated. Thanks to Belgian-Dutch research, this is likely to change.
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