Are all the different cancers really that different or is it all just cancer and we just specify where it formed?
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“Cancer” is just when a cell mutates enough that it forgets its suppose to die, and then multiplies without constraint.
So in theory each cell could have a different type of “cancer”. And in fact each cell could mutate multiple ways that impact the disease.
For example some cancers (her2 for example see certain hormones as a “trigger” to grow. So we can reduce those hormones to slow it down.
Others like tnbc (which I’m dealing with in my family) are unknown how they are triggered and are far harder to stop or deal with.
But both of those can come from the milk glands in breast tissue.
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