title: Treatment of metastatic breast cancer.
abstract: Relapse of breast cancer connotes a dire prognosis. However, long-term survival with remissions and disease exacerbation are possible using conservative treatment strategies and often sequential hormonal manipulations. Hormonal therapy is the mainstay of metastatic breast cancer treatment for patients with hormonally sensitive tumors; cytotoxic chemotherapy, for patients with hormonally independent tumors. High-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow reinfusion is currently under investigation.
authors.affiliation: South Florida Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Inc, Miami.
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Vogel
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface