Metastatic bc, positive axillary lymph nodes, &cancer spreading

besa

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/96149

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-breast-cancer-routes.html

The study showed that tumour cells are spread from the breast tumour to the axillary lymph nodes and to other organs such as the skeleton and the brain. Metastases then often spread from the first organ to other organs in the next stage.

"Our most important finding, however, was that the metastases in the axillary lymph nodes do not seem to spread further to other organs, so even if these metastases can show how aggressive the cancer is, it is not they that cause the spread," says Johan Hartman, Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Oncology-Pathology and one of the researchers who led the study."

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Interesting work! Thank you for sharing!

farmerlucy

Yes. Very interesting. Wow, this could really blow a lot of assumptions out of the water. Fascinating.

Heidihill

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/1803...

How to reconcile?

besa

heidihill- Thank you for posting the the link. I imagine this can be reconciled only after more studies and research. Right now we only have theories....

bluepearl

What about cancer spread in node negative patients?