Locoregional surgical treatment improves the prognosis in primary metastatic breast cancer patients with a single distant metastasis except for brain metastasis.

CONCLUSIONS: The effect of locoregional surgery has been underestimated in pMBC patients. Surgical procedures should be seriously considered when planning combination treatments for pMBC patients with a single metastasis except for brain metastasis. PMID: 30928762 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30928762?dopt=Abstract

Source: Breast - March 22, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Li X, Huang R, Ma L, Liu S, Zong X Tags: Breast Source Type: research