Surgery is sometimes an option if your metastatic cancer is the first time you've been diagnosed with breast cancer. Your doctor may also suggest it if a tumor's causing a lot of symptoms or if there's a risk of a serious complication. For example, if your breast cancer has spread and...
where they survive after treatment in a kind of hibernation called dormancy. Currently, cancer medicine relies on monitoringcancer patientsafter their initial treatment in order to detect the awakening of these cells to form metastases. One of the biggest...
The idea that the immune system holds latent cancer in check is not new. The starkest example of this immune surveillance comes from the land of organ transplantation: Patients receiving an organ from a donor who previously had cancer but was thought to be cured sometimes come down with the ...
Background Effective anthracycline-free combinations need to be evaluated in metastatic breast cancer (MBC), due to the increased number of patients treat... G Fountzilas,U Dafni,MA Dimopoulos,... - 《Breast Cancer Research & Treatment》 被引量: 140发表: 2009年 Clinical efficacy of taxane-...
METASTATIC breast cancerCANCER patientsHORMONE receptorsHORMONE therapyCDK4/6 inhibitors in association with endocrine therapy represent the best therapeutic choice for either endocrine-sensitive or resistant hormone-receptor-positive advanced breast cancer patients. On the contrary, the optimal ...
. Advanced breast cancer is another word for metastatic breast cancer. Advanced breast cancer is defined in medical terms as breast cancer that has gone beyond the breast to other essential organs in the body, such as the bones, ...
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摘要: An open-label, noninferiority study to evaluate the impact of epoetin alfa (EPO) on tumor outcomes when used to treat anemia in patients receiving chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer.DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2016.67.2055 被引量: 1
Then, in 2014, I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. It’s evident to me now that having the cancer come back is the pink elephant in the room that people don’t want to talk about. They just ignore that part of their reality. Honestly, I was doing the same thing at Hope...
Surgery may also be used to reconstruct the breast after surgery or relieve symptoms in people withmetastatic breast cancer(where cancer has spread beyond the primary site).2 Breast-Conserving Surgery If cancer is detected early, breast-conserving surgery (BCS)—also known as alumpectomy—can be...