Metastasis is a word none of us likes to hear. Metastatic is what we don’t want our cancer to turn into. Metastases–the dreaded “mets”–is what we don’t want to have.
Sadly, many of us are familiar with metastasis–the process of breast cancer cells leaving your breast, setting up shop in another part of your body, and starting their evil work again. Often metastasis is what’s happened when you’re diagnosed with bone cancer, or brain cancer, or lung cancer–it’s breast cancer...
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