chemotherapy
Last reviewed 06/2023
Chemotherapy is indicated in two situations for the treatment of breast cancer:
- adjuvant chemotherapy in patients at risk of micrometastasis
- treatment of known metastatic disease
First line treatment is with an anthracycline or mitozantrone. Resistant tumours may respond to a taxol compound.
Gemcitabine in combination with paclitaxel, in cases of breast cancer who have relapsed following adjuvant/neo-adjuvant chemotherapy, is recommended as an option for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer only when docetaxel monotherapy or docetaxel plus capecitabine are also considered appropriate (1).
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