How fast can breast cancer spread?

The growth and spread of breast cancer can be difficult to grasp because cancer cell growth is often fueled by normally healthy chemicals of the body, like estrogen, progesterone, and the HER2/neu gene (a growth hormone). read more

"The majority of women with metastatic breast cancer can move forward with their therapies while continuing their regular lifestyle -- working, taking care of their families, exercising, and traveling," says Erica L. Mayer, MD, MPH, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. read more

Breast cancer staging is a classification method based on the size of your cancer and how far it has (or hasn’t) spread beyond its original location within the breast. In most cases, staging is done after the tumor is removed and the lymph nodes have been examined. read more