Estimating Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer
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This elegant analysis for patients eligible for first-line therapy for metastatic breast cancer likely included patients of a higher performance status and lower tumor burden than the average patient with metastatic breast cancer. In addition Cheap Steven Adams Shirt , many of the patients who were part of the meta-analysis had not received the community standard adjuvant therapies offered to patients today after initial diagnosis. As such, the estimates for survival from this analysis would likely be higher than we would expect in the average population of patients with metastatic breast cancer presenting in the community today.

Being able to provide this information as well as worst-case, median, and best-case scenarios to patients and their family members is important to help them plan for the future and make choices for treatment and supportive care.

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