| Literature DB >> 30190995 |
Nicolae Bacalbaşa1,1, Sorin Tiberiu Alexandrescu1,2,1,2, Irinel Popescu1,2,3,1,2,3.
Abstract
Traditionally, patients with metastatic breast cancer were seen as carrying a grim prognosis and therapy was based mainly on palliative chemotherapy and hormonal therapy, with surgery being considered as ineffective. However, in the last 20 years different centers worldwide published series of metastatic breast cancer patients who underwent resection for different metastatic sites (liver, brain, lung), reporting favorable results. Most of these papers addressed to the role of liver surgery in patients with breast cancer liver metastases, mainly due to the favorable results achieved by liver resection in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. In this review are presented the results achieved by liver surgery in patients with breast cancer liver metastases.Entities:
Keywords: breast cancer; hepatic resection; liver metastasis; survival
Year: 2015 PMID: 30190995 PMCID: PMC6095411 DOI: 10.2217/hep.14.40
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Hepat Oncol ISSN: 2045-0923