Thriving Together: 2021 Virtual Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer

Learn more about hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer, which means the stage IV breast cancer is hormone-sensitive.

The goal of metastatic breast cancer treatment is to manage the disease while limiting side effects. Learn about available treatments and when they are used.

Metastatic triple-negative breast cancer is a rare form of aggressive breast cancer. Learn more its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options.

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Ribociclib (Kisqali), a targeted therapy, is the second CDK 4/6 inhibitor to be approved by the FDA. It targets two specific kinases, or enzymes, that help tumor cells grow and divide.

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Palbociclib (Ibrance), a targeted therapy, was the first CDK 4/6 inhibitor to be approved by the FDA. It targets two specific kinases, or enzymes, that help tumor cells grow and divide.

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Elacestrant (Orserdu) is a hormonal therapy used to treat metastatic breast cancer.

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Sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy) is an antibody-drug conjugate, a treatment that pairs a chemotherapy medicine with a targeted therapy. It is approved to treat people diagnosed with metastatic, triple-negative breast cancer and people diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer that is hormone receptor-positive and HER2-negative.

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Atezolizumab (Tecentriq) is an immunotherapy that was granted accelerated approval by the Food and Drug Administration in March 2019 to treat metastatic triple-negative breast cancer that expresses the PD-L1 protein and was voluntarily withdrawn in 2021 because follow-up research failed to confirm the initial promising results that prompted the accelerated approval.

If you have metastatic breast cancer, it means breast cancer cells spread away, or metastasized, from your breast tissue to other, distant areas of the body.

Prognosis means the likely outcome or course of a disease. If you’ve been diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer (MBC), you may have already learned that it means being in treatment for life. It’s completely understandable to want to know how long that really is.