Myth: Everyone's breast cancer is the same.

Oh, so not true, Kemo Sabe. Even within the same patient the cancer can vary. I was diagnosed as a Triple Negative ( ha, and they didn’t even know me!) meaning ER/PR/HER2 negative which indicates a certain course of treatment. The post surgical pathology showed some cells that were definitely ER/PR positive … which put me on an immediate course of Tamoxifen.

Remember that cancer, even within the same individual, is a diverse population - kind of like the world we live in. Comparing breast cancers is rather like comparing apples and oranges.

FALSE. There are many sub-types of breast cancer and they require different types of treatment.

Different women have different breast cancer types with unique disease characteristics including:

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