Your treatment will depend on where your cancer started, whether it has
invaded other breast tissue or spread to other parts of your body, and whether hormones like estrogen or progesterone fuel its growth, among other factors.
Not exact matches
Working with human
breast cancer cells and mouse models of
breast cancer, scientists identified a new protein that plays a key role in reprogramming cancer cells to migrate and
invade other organs.
In these circumstances, cells from primary tumors in
breast, colon, prostate, or
other organs
invade lung tissue via the bloodstream.
Like
other cancers,
breast cancer arises when the cells of the
breast lose control over their division and start to
invade neighboring tissues.
A tumor is cancerous (or malignant) when these abnormal cells
invade other parts of the
breast or when they spread (or metastasize) to
other areas of the body through the bloodstream or lymphatic system, a network of vessels and nodes in the body that plays a role in fighting infection.