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Health
Maeve Bannister

'Invisible' cancer patients finally brought into focus

New estimates suggest up to 21,000 Australians are living with incurable breast cancer. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

The number of Australians living with incurable breast cancer is almost double what has been previously estimated, with thousands of mostly female patients invisible to health authorities. 

Metastatic breast cancer develops when the cancer spreads from the breast and nearby lymph nodes to other parts of the body.

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