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