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10 Life-Saving Metastatic Breast Cancer Facts

By: Emily Lockhart on Friday, November 15th

1. Metastatic (pronounced like met-ah-STA-tic) breast cancer refers to stage 4 breast cancer, which originates in the breast, but spreads as cancer cells break away from the primary breast tumor and take root and grow in different parts of the body—typically the bones, and major organs like the liver, lungs and brain.

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