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@polianad22

I still don't understand why do we need hormonal treatment after the mastectomy. Breast cancer is the only cancer driven by estrogen and progesterone. Correct?

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It's because breast cancer cells might have escaped to elsewhere in the body, metastasized...
and is more problematic when that happens.