Which patients with metastatic breast cancer should have mastectomy?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
We do not recommend a mastectomy for metastatic breast cancer patients unless it is for palliation reasons. We would recommend for metastatic breast cancer patients to enroll if possible in a clinical trial such as in ECOG-E2108, which is evaluating the effect of a mastectomy in overall survival and...
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Medical Oncologist at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center While we do not routinely recommend surgery in met...
Medical Oncologist at Colorado Permanente Medical Group Hematology & Oncology I wonder if you feel the same about patients with ...
While we do not routinely recommend surgery in met...
I wonder if you feel the same about patients with ...