Metastatic breast cancer: what they need to know?

Metastatic cancer refers to cancer that has spread from the part of the body where it started to other parts of the body.

When the tumor is only in the place where it originated, in this case in the breast, it comes into consideration What is the early or localized stage?underline to Panama America dr. Saúl Campos-Gómez, an oncologist from the Social Security Institute of Mexico.

“When cells leave the tumor and start traveling to other parts, and settle or seed in other places away from where they originated, we call it metastasis,” he explains.

The most common places where he works metastasis It is found in the nodes closest to the armpit, lungs, liver and bones.

Although also in some species breast cancer it can go to the brain.

30% of women with breast cancer could develop it metastasisYes, a full evaluation is necessary.

For that reason, breast cancer It must be treated early in order to have adequate control and act on time.

You have to remember that breast cancer in the world It is the number one cause of death in women.

Active search and diagnostics in the initial phase breast cancer improve the chances of success in healing and survival

treatment and others

You have to get out of your mind that a cancer diagnosis it’s a death sentence, because “this whole issue of cancer has taken great strides… we have more weapons to deal with it…” said Dr. Saúl Campos-Gómez.

“Especially with breast cancer, we have new ones therapeutic that help us treat it, we can identify several characteristics within breast cancer, including the presence of some hormone receptors that now inhibit those receptors that help us treat it, and along with this inhibition we have new drugs such as cyclin inhibitors within which we know several on the market …”, he elaborates.

“They helped us change the landscape of response… patients Before, we were able to control the disease for a shorter time or part with chemotherapy or with the therapy we had, but now we have increased, we have passed the barrier of controlling these patients for more than five years with a good quality of life…”, he explained.

He adds, “So patients should know that there are new therapies and that there are many options for self-medication and that these new survivors have a good quality of life.”