Monday, January 23, 2006
Where does breast cancer metastasize to first?
Not all breast cancers are created equal. Depending on the genes that have become wrongfully activated within the cancer tissue, the tumor may spread to different locations in different circumstances. For example, some people develop bone metastasis only while others develop liver, brain or lung mets. Some people develop multiple sites of metastasis all at once. What can be said with certainty is that there are common locations for mets that a radiologist will look for on scans. These common sites are lung, bone, liver, brain and distant lymph nodes.