Optimism for metastatic breast cancer advances

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Metastatic breast cancer deserves a bigger voice, says Dr Belinda Yeo, co-chair of yesterday morning’s plenary.
“We had an opportunity to hear world experts speak not only about the systemic therapies that have revolutionised metastatic breast cancer treatment but also about localised therapies,” she said.
In his presentation, Dr Shom Goel of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre discussed four conceptual paradigms that have helped bring incremental improvements in outcomes for early-stage and advanced breast cancer patients. These are: