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A typical course of breast radiotherapy requires between 3 to 6 weeks of daily treatment. For some patients with early-stage breast cancer, only five days of treatment are needed. We ask patients to plan for 30 to 60 minutes of treatment each day, but it only takes several minutes to deliver the radiation dose.

New Treatments for Breast Cancer: , , Aromatase Inhibitors, and Oncotype Assays.

Between 20 and 30 percent of women with early stage breast cancer go on to develop metastatic disease. While treatable, metastatic breast cancer (MBC) cannot be cured. The five-year survival rate for stage 4 breast cancer is 22 percent; median survival is three years.

So it is what we call a HER2 antibody drug conjugate, which means it's composed of an antibody, which is actually , or is the other name. A lot of our breast cancer patients will be familiar with that. It's been a groundbreaking drug since it was approved 20 plus years ago.

In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration approved Phesgo, a new drug that offers faster administration of and Perjeta, and City of Hope is now offering this drug to patients who qualify. Phesgo is given by subcutaneous injection and the first dose takes only eight minutes to administer.

On August 5, the agency gave an accelerated approval for deruxtecan—often called T-DXd—to treat anyone with any advanced solid cancer if their tumors produce high levels of the protein HER2, or HER2-positive. To receive the drug, a patient must already have received at least one prior treatment.

Atezolizumab is an immunotherapy drug that empowers a patient's own immune system to seek and destroy cancerous cells. The treatment is currently offered by transfusion to NHS patients with a range of cancers, including lung, breast, liver and bladder.

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