If you’re diagnosed with breast cancer is the rest of you safe? Or is it more like you have cancer in your body and it started in the breast?
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Generally, no. There are many different types of cancers that have different causes, different effects on the body, rates of progression, etc.
It’s called breast cancer if it starts in the breast, but there are different types of breast cancer. So two people with breast cancer may have different cancer types, and a person with say, skin cancer, almost certainly has a different type of cancer than the person with breast cancer.
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