Treatment of Advanced Mammary Cancer

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Abstract
ABOUT 25 per cent of all women treated for cancer of the breast are cured. The remaining 75 per cent require at some stage treatment for incurable disease. These patients, whom we designate as having advanced mammary cancer, fall into four categories.Symptomatic Metastases without Local RecurrenceIn the first category are those in whom after treatment by mastectomy, symptomatic metastatic disease subsequently develops without evidence of local recurrence. This complication occurs in about three of every five women undergoing mastectomy and represents the most usual type of advanced disease. Skeletal deposits predominate, but hepatic, pulmonary and cerebral deposits are . . .