What should be the goal of treatment in metastatic breast cancer?
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 07:49
in Health & Medicine
Many patients with metastatic breast cancer believe that the primary goal in survival with new treatment should be to prolong life by at least a year over the survival they might expect from using current best therapies, a researcher will tell the seventh European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC7) in Barcelona today (Wednesday). This finding contrasts with doctors' perception that an additional four to six months' survival is significant enough to consider a new treatment worthwhile.