Emerging Strategies in Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment

摘要

The prognosis for patients with breast cancer has improved in recent decades, with progress in early detection, advances in adjuvant chemotherapy, and the development of new therapies that extend survival in metastatic disease. Today, most women with breast cancer are diagnosed at an early stage and will not die from the disease. The introduction of newer therapies in the past 2 decades have led to improvements in survival and in quality of life, allowing patients to continue leading active lives free of significant debility and frequent hospitalizations.