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Learn about breast cancer and the risk of developing metastatic or recurrent breast cancer.

The symptoms of metastatic and recurrent breast cancer depend on how much the cancer has spread. You may have specific physical symptoms, such as a lump in your breast or on your chest wall, bone pain, or shortness of breath.

Recurrent breast cancer occurs when breast cancer comes back in or near the original location after treatment.

You have an increased chance of having metastatic or recurrent breast cancer if you have ever had breast cancer. Although the exact cause of breast cancer is not known, older women have the highest risk.

You will have regularly scheduled follow-up visits with your doctor after you are treated for breast cancer. Some women with metastatic or recurrent breast cancer do not have any symptoms. This cancer is discovered on an X-ray or through other tests.

Metastatic disease is present in a small number of women at the time breast cancer is first diagnosed. Breast cancer recurs in about a third of all women after the initial diagnosis.

Decisions about how to treat metastatic or recurrent breast cancer are based on a combination of factors that include specific information about the cancer, your preferences, and your health.

Initial treatment of breast cancer with chemotherapy or hormone therapy can help prevent metastatic or recurrent breast cancer.

During treatment for metastatic or recurrent breast cancer, you can use home treatment to help manage the side effects that often accompany breast cancer or cancer treatment. Home treatment may be all that is needed to manage the following common problems

Learn about medications used to treat recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.

Surgery is not generally used to treat metastatic breast cancer. Mastectomy may be used to treat breast cancer that has recurred in the breast (local recurrence) following breast - conserving surgery and radiation.

Metastatic breast cancer often affects the bones or the brain. Radiation treatments are often used to treat breast cancer that has spread to the bones or brain. They may be a good choice to treat brain metastases, relieve bone pain, and control the spread

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