Julie's cancer had also spread to her bones. She hadn't realized how commonly metastases occurred.
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Because when the cancer returned in my bones, then I kind of understood that it had become something else. I had not fully understood that 30% of the women diagnosed with breast cancer will eventually have a metastatic breast cancer. I was sure that I was not part of those statistics. So when… and 30% is still huge, and maybe it is even more than 30%. So when you look at all that to understand the sickness. And all that, yes, it is important but… The metastatic breast cancer is something else than stage 1 or stage 2 breast cancer.
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