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What is metastatic cancer?

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What is metastatic cancer?

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Watch Tonya Echols Cole, MD, explain how doctors identify metastatic breast cancer cells to determine where the disease originated as well as discuss how medical professionals view none curable cancers - as a chronic ongoing disease.

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