Finding out you have metastatic breast cancer is never easy, but today’s treatment options are better than ever before. There’s still no “cure” for stage IV breast cancer, but treatment can help slow cancer growth and prolong your life. What’s more, newer treatments emerge all the time.
“It’s been a very exciting decade in advanced breast cancer for all of our different tumor types,” says Paula Klein, MD, hematologist and oncologist at the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Health System. Doctors now have “very exciting new drugs” to improve treatment outcomes and extend life, says Dr. Klein.
Paula Klein, MD, is a hematologist and oncologist at the Dubin Breast Center of the Mount Sinai Health System.
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