Sequential Metastatic Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: Should the Median be the Message?

Frontiers in Public Health

Su Yon Jung¹ 

关键词: metastatic breast cancer;    chemotherapy;    sequential treatment;    survival;    treatment counseling;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2013.00049

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background: Counseling and anticipatory guidance of the expected course of treatment for women newly diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) are difficult due to multiple factors influencing survival following MBC therapy. In order to better tailor counseling at the onset and through the duration of MBC we used non-clinical trial data to better characterize real life experience of sequential MBC treatment. We examined the following aims: (1) What demographic and tumor characteristics are predictive of survival in MBC? (2) What is the median duration of each sequential chemotherapy regimen and subsequent survival of women following each sequence of chemotherapy regimen in MBC?

【 授权许可】

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