How Do Breast Cancer And Metastatic Breast Cancer Differ

For those dealing with metastatic or advance breast cancer, the feeling is that they are often the forgotten ones when it comes to the focus that is given to breast cancer, particularly during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It can be difficult for the general population to understand that breast cancer can be found anywhere but within the breast. Therefore, when breast cancer moves to the brain or bones or lungs or liver, the conception is that you now have brain cancer or bone cancer or lung cancer or liver cancer. However, this is not the case as breast cancer that has metastasized or moved to another part of the body is still breast cancer. This same thing applies to other cancers as well. For instance, lung cancer that has moved outside of the lungs to the brain is not brain cancer; it is metastasized or advanced lung cancer. In other words, a cancer is identified by its origin and not by a location to which it has advanced.