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How do you manage a symptomatic primary breast tumor in a patient with metastatic disease?
Do you think it is better to manage symptomatic breast primary disease with radiation or mastectomy in a metastatic patient who has persistent or recurrent breast symptoms while on systemic therapy?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
It’s much harder to treat patients palliatively than to cure. The art of palliation generally requires weighing the acute and subacute toxicities of alternative treatments much more heavily and chronic toxicities less than we do for potentially curative care. It also requires assessing whether...
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