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Yes, Annette. The bc cancer cells can travel through our blood system and/or the lymph fluid. BC likes to travel to bones, brain, liver, and lungs.
BC cells can travel to those places and begin reproducing there. OR there could be cancer that is not bc in any of those places.
The NP explained that it is the same as if I had traveled to France. There are plenty of people in France that are French- but I came from America, being in France does not make me French. So once cancer is found- the doctors need to determine if it is a cancer that originated there- or bc that has traveled there. Because the treatment protocols are different for (example) a true lung cancer, or bc in the lungs.
Hope that made sense! (Always hard to tell when we are writing these things out!)
Hugs!
Some Breast cancers spread to bone and some spread to organs and then others spread to both.
regardless, it's still cancer. This doesn't make sense to me. Breast cancer cells in the bones?????
When breast cancer returns in the bones, it's considered a distant recurrence or metastasis. This means cancer cells from the original breast tumor have spread to create new tumors in the bones. It's important to understand that these are still breast cancer cells, not bone cancer.
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