Does Metastic Breast Cancer mean that the cancer is in your blood?!


Question: I can only find that it means it had spread from your breast to other organs. My doctor has said that I have Metastic Breast Cancer. That the cancer is in my blood therefore it is incurable and nothing more can be done.


Answers: I can only find that it means it had spread from your breast to other organs. My doctor has said that I have Metastic Breast Cancer. That the cancer is in my blood therefore it is incurable and nothing more can be done.

Metastatic means that the cancer in your breast has spread from your breast THROUGH your blood to another organ. It does not mean it is in your blood, it merely used it as a highway.

Metastatic (or stage 4) cancer is difficult to treat, but in some cases can still be managed. Depends on how far and how deep the cancer has spread. Try to find a second opinion. And even if it is incurable, I've seen patients given 3 months to live go on for ten or more years.

http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/rec... in God all things are possible

Metastatic breast cancer means that the neoplastic tissue or the cancerous tissue has spread to other places or that it has sent or spread its seedlings to other organs.
Now the spread of any neoplastic(cancerous) tissue is by various different means or channels like:
1. Direct Spread.. as in contact with other organ
2. Via Lymphatic channels..
3. Transcelomic
4.Via Blood stream..in this the malignant cells travel through the blood stream and get implanted far away from the parent tumor site into different organs.

Further even if it is metastatic.. treatment may be possible for some of such case.

Mine is also metastatic, stage IV. I was told that the cancer is going around and when it shows up they will treat the symptoms only since they can't stop it.. I don't know if it is in the blood, but it is in the lymph system.





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