Breast cancer is the commonest malignancy in women. However, metastatic involvement of the breast is relatively rare. Metastatic disease of the breast is therefore often an unexpected diagnosis in a female patient presenting with a breast mass. The commonest cause is spread from a contralateral ...
Staging Breast Cancer, Researching Metastatic Disease.Social science researchers have fruitfully used a range of conceptualizations of "performance": as a metaphor for social life, a way of vivifying research findings, and a form of scholarly representation. In this article, the researchers consider ...
METASTATIC DISEASE (SECONDARY DISEASE) CASE 1: EDITH Edith was a 71-year-old woman who had a previous history of breast cancer. She presented to an orthopaedic triage service in November 2001. She had been referred by her general practitioner (GP). Edith had started to have thoracic pain ...
Supplementary Table 1 Clinical features of enrolled patients with breast cancer. For each patient, the table shows patient age, initial AJCC stage, date of first diagnosis, ER, PR, HER2 and Ki67 status of the primary tumour. The table also shows the presence of metastatic disease at the time...
This resource offers experts a deep dive into the diagnosis, treatment and management of metastatic breast cancer.
(Fig.6i). Breast cancer, and in particular TNBC, remains a highly metastatic and potentially lethal disease with a need to identify additional specific molecular targets and to develop more effective therapies [4,5]. Although IGF signaling has been shown to support progression of HR+ and HER2...
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Tap into your health care community for info on your disease and how to adapt to life with metastatic breast cancer. How Your Breast Cancer Community Can Provide Support Many people find it helpful to talk with others who have the same or similar diagnosis. In other words, you may find it...
Metastatic breast cancer can be a daunting diagnosis, but the prognosis has improved somewhat with advances in treatment. Ad Also known as stage 4breast cancer,metastatic canceris defined as the spread of disease beyond the localbreastand nearby lymph nodes. More than 150,000 individuals in the ...
Table 1 Breast cancer staging Full size table Multi-modality imaging is widely used clinically for disease staging. However, all cancers are potentially systemic diseases and whole-body imaging techniques, such as whole-body hybrid imaging (PET-CT and/or PET-MRI) or whole-body magnetic resonance...