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Metastatic Breast Cancer

Metastatic breast cancer, also called advanced or stage IV breast cancer, is breast cancer that has spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to distant parts of the body such as the bones, lungs, liver, or brain. Once cancer has metastasized, treatment generally focuses on controlling the disease, prolonging …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 6 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 11× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Metastatic breast cancer, also called advanced or stage IV breast cancer, is breast cancer that has spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to distant parts of the body such as the bones, lungs, liver, or brain. Once cancer has metastasized, treatment generally focuses on controlling the disease, prolonging survival, and maintaining quality of life, using approaches such as systemic therapies including chemotherapy, along with radiotherapy and other treatments directed at specific sites of disease. Prognosis varies depending on factors including where the cancer has spread, its biological characteristics, and how it responds to treatment. Within the scope of a journal focused on breast cancer survival, research in this area has examined survival among breast cancer patients treated at a tertiary cancer center, and has investigated chemotherapy following whole-brain radiotherapy as a prognostic factor in metastatic breast cancer with brain involvement. These studies address outcomes and treatment strategies in advanced disease. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to metastatic breast cancer and survival, offering clinicians, researchers, and students freely accessible scientific work on the management and prognosis of advanced breast cancer.

Research published in this journal

6 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 6 articles above have been cited 11 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Metastatic Breast Cancer, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Breast Cancer Survival.

Journal editorial board
Mark LaBarge · United States Raffaele Serra · Italy Jayant Vaidya · United Kingdom

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