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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Consensus on treating metastatic breast cancer

What happens when a group of breast cancer experts from around the world get together and talk about the state of the art of treating metastatic breast cancer?

Find out by reading (it's a PDF you can print) this recently published, free full text article from the July 16, 2009 Annals of Oncology entitled the Third consensus on medical treatment of metastatic breast cancer

Not only does this article do a decent job of laying out treatment philosophy in a standard form, but it also pulls together the latest studies upon which current treatment practice is based. This means that if you look for your particular treatment, line of therapy or kind of breast cancer, it will be footnoted with the most relevant, most recent research findings. This is a real time and energy saver for all of us.