Metastatic breast cancer treatment

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1], Assistant Editor-in-Chief Jack Khouri

Overview

With rare exception, metastatic breast cancer is an incurable but treatable illness. With improving drug therapies, some patients are managed as a chronic disease, especially those with ER-positive breast cancer with predominantly bone/soft tissue metastasis. Chemotherapy, biologic therapy and endocrine therapy are all considered in the treatment of meatastatic breast cancer.