Chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer.

摘要: Cytotoxic chemotherapy is a mainstay of treatment for advanced breast cancer. Treatment metastatic (also called stage IV, advanced, or recurrent) cancer not considered curative. Rather, the goals with are to prolong survival, alleviate prevent tumor-related symptoms complications, and improve quality life. While purpose symptoms, paradoxically carries considerable toxicities that cause substantial in patients, notoriously including fatigue, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hair loss, mucositis, neutropenia, neuropathy. Balancing benefits side effects further complicated by natural history cancer, which can be quite prolonged typically involves multiple lines chemotherapy, especially patients whose tumors respond treatment.