People living with metastatic breast cancer and their families have many questions about the disease and its treatments, as well as how to cope with symptoms and side effects, and deal with all the practical issues that go along with the disease.  Here are the questions answered in this section:

• What do I really need to know, and why?
• There is a lot to learn.
• Why is so much still unknown, with all the research being done?
• What is metastatic breast cancer?
• What are tumor markers?
• Why wasn’t my metastatic breast cancer found sooner?
• Is Stage IV breast cancer different than metastatic breast cancer?
• Where in the body does breast cancer usually spread?
• What does my doctor mean when he/she says metastatic breast cancer isn’t curable, but is treatable?
• If it can’t be cured, what is the goal of treatment in metastatic disease?
• What factors determine how long an individual woman will live with the disease?
• With so many to choose from, how does my doctor determine which treatment to recommend?
  • What is the pathology of your cancer?
  • How rapidly is your cancer growing? 
  • Where in your body has your cancer spread already?
  • What treatments have you already had?

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