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Food shouldn’t become another thing to be afraid of after cancer. It’s so easy to hear “sugar feeds cancer” or “fast to starve cancer” and suddenly start questioning every meal: Am I eating too much? Too often? Too many carbs? Am I somehow helping cancer come back? But metastasis is so much more complicated than metabolism alone. Researchers are studying genetics, dormancy, immune escape, treatment resistance, the tumor microenvironment, how cancer cells adapt to different organs — and metabolism. Taking care of your health matters. But it shouldn’t mean living in fear of food or feeling responsible for biology you cannot fully control. Did cancer ever change the way you feel about food? I’d genuinely love to hear your experience. #BreastCancer #cancernutrition #cancerfree #cancerresearch #cancerbiology

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We talk so much about breast cancer …tumors, lymph nodes, blood vessels, metastasis. But sometimes it’s hard to imagine what any of that actually means inside a real human body. Seeing real breast tissue made something click for me: the breast isn’t just one piece of tissue. It contains different structures, blood vessels and a lymphatic network — all incredibly close together. And understanding that anatomy helped me understand how breast cancer can potentially find routes to spread. Of course, entering a blood or lymphatic vessel is only one step. Most cancer cells will never successfully complete all the steps needed to form a metastasis. Sometimes seeing the anatomy makes the biology a little less abstract. 🫶 Did you know this is what breast tissue actually looks like? #BreastCancer #BreastCancerAwareness #BreastCancerEducation #CancerEducation #BreastCancerSurvivor

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I know it can be hard when you’re on hormone therapy and suddenly experience side effects without really understanding why your body feels so different. Estrogen does so much more in our body than we often realize. And understanding what estrogen normally does may help us understand why lowering or blocking its signal can affect us in so many different ways. So I hope this little journey through the body helps you understand your body — and your side effects — just a little bit better. 🫶 #HormonePositiveBreastCancer #HormoneTherapy #Estrogen #BreastCancerEducation #BreastCancerSupport