Is breast cancer just cancer found in the breast?

Question

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?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Generally, if it’s just called breast cancer, it’s just in the breast. But any cancer can spread if it’s not treated, which is why early screening is important. Brest cancer by itself has a good recovery rate, once it spreads to a different organ then treatment is more difficult. Sometimes if it started in the breast and then spread, it can be called “secondary breast cancer”