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.
Principles of therapy
The principles of therapy are improving quality of life, decreasing treatment-induced toxicity, and prolonging survival. Given that treatment is palliative, patients should be given treatment holidays to limit toxicity.