[Chemotherapy of cancer of the breast in the metastatic phase]

Bull Cancer. 1989;76(1):75-85.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Metastatic breast adenocarcinoma is a very chemosensitive tumor. Polychemotherapy (CT) is more active than mono-CT inducing a 50-60% response rate in naive chemotherapy patients. The response rate is increased by adding hormonotherapy (HT) to CT in hormone-receptors positive patients. Whether or not HT and CT should be concomitant or consecutive is still questionable. The overall survival remains poor (22-30 months) and no improvement happened during the last decades. A hope for the future is possible from 2 different concepts: high dose chemotherapy or intermittent CT with successive short inductions treatment and no maintenance therapy.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / drug therapy*
  • Adenocarcinoma / pathology
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / administration & dosage
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology
  • Breast Neoplasms / secondary
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Female
  • Gonadal Steroid Hormones / administration & dosage
  • Gonadal Steroid Hormones / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Neoplasm Metastasis

Substances

  • Gonadal Steroid Hormones