Symptoms related to metastatic breast cancer are primarily dependent on the location of the metastasis, and then on the chronic medical conditions and general health status of the patient experiencing the symptoms. There are a number of symptom management strategies that can be used to mitigate these...
When cancer cells break off the primary tumor and travel through the body to grow in a new location, it's called metastasis. When cancer cells break off the primary tumor and travel through the bloodstream or lymphatic system and then grow in a new location, the process is called metastasi...
how widespread it is, and what the primary cancer was. For example, a person with bone metastasis from breast cancer tends to have a better prognosis than someone with bone metastasis from lung cancer.4
937 Words 4 Pages Open Document Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers and the second leading cause of cancer-related death among women in the United States. Up to 6% of breast cancers are advanced or metastatic at the time of diagnosis, requiring chemotherapy1, 2. Aberrant, accele...
Themore children a woman has, the less likely she is to develop mastitis during breastfeeding. This may be because women become more used to breastfeeding, the more children they have. Causes Nipple damagemay lead to mastitis by allowing bacteria to enter the breast tissue through a graze or...
What Is Metastatic Liver Cancer? Liver metastasis is the name given to a cancerous tumor that has reached the liver from somewhere else in the body. Another name for this type of cancer is secondary liver cancer as it had not originated in the liver which is the case in primary liver can...
The most important goal of treating breast cancer patients is to stop metastasis at source, i.e. eradicate all cancer cells before they metastasize to distant organs. The principal strategy to achieve this goal has been ‘detect and surgically excise the tumor as early as possible’. Based on...
Breast cancer is a cellular disease and the cellular kinetic events in the predetectable period are of great clinical significance. Such events include rate of replication, angiogenesis with distant metastasis, rate of cell death, and the number of cells needed to produce a detectable and later a...
there are cases when the damaged cell does not die but continues to regenerate resulting in more damaged cells. Cancer will spread to other parts of the body through a process known as metastasis where the cancer cells invade other normal tissues by travelling through the blood streams and lymph...
L Yi,Y Wang - 《Clinical Breast Cancer》 被引量: 17发表: 2012年 Duodenal metastasis from male breast cancer: a case report and review of the literature Introduction Breast cancer is the most frequent type of tumor and the second leading cause of death in women. Metastases are present in ...