When you hear the words “You have cancer,” your life changes – instantly.
All of a sudden, you’ve crossed a line: the “cancer divide.” You’ve joined the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are battling this wretched disease.
Some of us live; some of us die. And all of us are marked by the experience for life.
Cancer comes with a centuries-old, ugly reputation. For hundreds of years, the chief weapon against solid-tumor cancers has been the knife.
Isolate the tumor; cut it out....
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A reader wants to know if HER2 breast cancer can spread to other parts of the body if a lumpectomy and a sentinel node biopsy show that the lymph... Read more »
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Source: Breastcancer.org
The lymph nodes reveal information about outlook and they help doctors determine the best types of treatment against the cancer. Your lymph nodes act... Read more »
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