title: [Locoregional surgery for stage IV breast cancer patients].
abstract: Three to 6% of women newly diagnosed with breast cancers have stage IV disease. Overall survival was improved during the last few years (16-45 months). The treatment of stage IV breast cancer has traditionally been palliative with surgical resection reserved for symptomatic wound complications. Since 2000, several retrospective studies have compared surgery versus no local therapy in women presenting with stage IV breast cancer with an intact primary tumor. All showed a survival advantage for the surgical cohort. However, these studies are limited by the fact that it is not possible to control for biases that led to surgical resection of the primary tumor. Several prospective randomized trials have been undertaken. We have partial results for two of them and they show no survival differences between patients who benefit from local surgery and patients who did not have surgery. However, breast surgery is at low risk of complication, if not considering psychological aspect of mastectomy, and can be proposed to patients with no progression after first chemotherapy. Conservative management can be an option, but surgery must be optimal with negative margins. No benefit of axillary surgery has been shown but this treatment can lead to complications and impact quality of life of patients. Therefore, axillary node resection is not recommended for stage IV breast cancer. Finally, radiotherapy can be an alternative option of local therapy associated or no to surgery in stage IV breast cancer.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie oncologique, Institut Curie-Centre René-Huguenin, 35, rue Dailly, 92210 St-Cloud, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lotersztajn
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie oncologique, Institut Curie-Centre René-Huguenin, 35, rue Dailly, 92210 St-Cloud, France. Electronic address: delphine.hequet@gmail.com.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Héquet
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie oncologique, Institut Curie-Centre René-Huguenin, 35, rue Dailly, 92210 St-Cloud, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mosbah
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie oncologique, Institut Curie-Centre René-Huguenin, 35, rue Dailly, 92210 St-Cloud, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rouzier
mesh_terms: D001365:Axilla; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision / Q000009:adverse effects; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011788:Quality of Life; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D015996:Survival Rate
keywords: Breast cancer; Cancer du sein; Chirurgie locorégionale; Locoregional therapy; Metastatic; Métastatique