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Article: How surgery can cause breast cancer to return and what you can do to stop it.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Letter
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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What's worse than getting breast cancer? Getting breast cancer twice.
Have you noticed that some women have a recurrence of breast cancer while others don't? One reason for this has been known for a century, yet most doctors--even oncologists--don't talk to us about it. This is unconscionable, because when you understand what can cause breast cancer to return, you can take steps to prevent it from happening.
The reason for relapse was first discovered in premenopausal women. Now, researchers are finding that it applies to some postmenopausal women as well. The explanation has to do with a phenomenon that occurs after surgery. For some women, surgery is ...