Cutting-Edge Therapy Concepts – Cure Metastatic Breast Cancer?

摘要

Current data from epidemiology shows that early breast cancer has become a curable disease. The mortality is declining substantially, less than 20% of patients diagnosed with breast cancer today will die from the disease [1, 2, 3]. Overall survival of > 90% seems feasible in operable breast cancer. Even the survival of patients with locally advanced disease has improved by more than 20% over the last 20 years. Fewer patients will experience metastases and it almost seems that metastatic breast cancer has stepped into the background. Consequently, we observe that less metastatic breast cancer patients than ever can be accrued for clinical trials.