Andrea L. Merrill, M.D.

Most people know someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women in the United States (after skin cancer), affecting 1 in 8 women in their lifetimes.

Yet "breast cancer" isn’t one disease.

"People often expect breast cancer treatment to look a certain way, based on the experiences of friends or family members who have had the disease. But there are different types of breast cancer, and one person’s treatment plan can be completely different from someone else’s path," says Andrea Merrill, M.D., a breast surgeon at Sentara Breast Surgery Specialists at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital.

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