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
Learning About Your Unique Cancer To help determine your best treatment option, you should gather as much relevant information as you can about your type of breast cancer. Your pathology report, which you can get from your physician, is the primary source of this information. read more
As a rule, cancer is in the body for about ten years before discovery, but as noted, this can be a shorter or longer time depending on how aggressive, or non-aggressive the individual cancer is in the person's body. read more