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If you have metastatic breast cancer can you have surgery to remove the breast?
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Surgery needed: Even inn face of metastatic disease removal of primary eliminales clones that can metastasize ot other sites. Once primary is gone, proper therapy, whether RT alone or in combination with chemo and hormone therapy an be decided upon.
Answered 4/27/2016
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