In short, you can die with your tumors rather than from them. This is how dietary cancer prevention and treatment can end up being the same thing. One or two cancer cells never hurt anyone. But how about a billion cancer cells? That’s how many may be in a tumor5 by the time it’s picked up by a mammogram.6 Like most tumors, breast cancer starts with just one cell, which divides to become two, four, and then eight.
