New possibilities of therapy for advanced, metastatic breast cancer
Journal Title: OncoReview - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Despite improving screening methods, diagnosis of early breast cancers, new therapies the prognosis in breast cancer remains poor. Advanced, metastatic breast cancer is an incurable, persistent disease. Hormonotherapy is the main treatment of receptor positive breast cancer patients. Till now in case of hormone resistant disease chemotherapy was the only choice nowadays there is possibility to use combination of endocrine and targeted therapy, the mTOR inhibitor everolimus. In HER2 receptor positive breast cancer therapy with trasuzumab improved treatment results. Despite many new treatment methods there is still need for new therapies which could improve the patients outcome.
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Małgorzata Kuc-Rajca, Anna Walaszkowska-Czyż
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