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Asking for Mother, Female, 72 years old, Faisalabad
Treatment regarding her age. Doctors referred her for chemothearpy. We r confused between chemotherapy or palliative treatment
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Treatment of stage 4 breast cancer is always palliative and it includes chemotherapy...we want to decrease the Tumor load and ease the patient out...it’s better to consult an oncologist nearby
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Hormone therapy is possible if receptor positive but it’s not the replacement of chemotherapy...both have different modes of treatment
4 years ago
Go for Chemotherapy.
Treatment of stage 4 is always palliative and supportive. Get her biopsy done with receptor status. If her receptors are positive then You can also discuss the option of tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors with the oncologist.
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Thanx a lot. We can bypass chemotherapy and opt for hormone therapy if biopsy show receptor positive.
4 years ago
its stage 4, metastatic CA breast, needs chemotherapy, palliative treatment will run side by side for any emerging symptoms of any organ/region. if you understand palliative treatment as removal of breast only, it will not help.
assalam o alaikum, no benefit of surgery in this case, only if there is an ulcer of breast, palliative treatment with chemo is best option
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have you got her biopsy reports? well some type of tumor entirely vanish with chemo. but oncologist will guide you better. and if tumor does not vanish it will shrink so surgery would be easy
she needs trucut biopsy with receptors so that hormone therapy can be considered, and also oncologist opinion who can further help her in pallamiative treatment.
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