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Facts About Breast Cancer Diagnoses

Doctors usually diagnose patients with breast cancer after taking a tissue sample.

Getting a definitive breast cancer diagnosis from a doctor is the only way to know whether or not you have the disease.

Knowing the breast cancer stages can help you understand your condition and what your prognosis is if you discover you do have the disease.

Advanced breast cancer is the most difficult form of the disease to treat.

Breast cancer metastasis is a condition where the cancerous cells have travelled from the breasts to other parts of the body.

Metastatic breast cancer is the most advanced stage of the disease.

Inflammatory breast cancer makes up only one to five percent of all breast cancer cases.

This is an artificial depiction of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, one of the most frequently mutated proteins in cancer, undergoing dimerization.