What is the best treatment she can get from this standpoint? What about transplatation? We've heard about tests with patients whos have spread to liver from colon cancer, but what about mets from breast cancer?

Other treatments?

-Metastatic disease to the liver is always a sign of widespread mets in breast cancer. Surgery is not an option. The situation with colon cancer is rather special Treatment will certainly be chemotherapy, but will be palliative.

-Treatment for metstatic cancer is systemic....more chemo. Some opt for pallative care treatment of symptoms only, Bone Marrow transplant was shown not to be effective for breast cancer.

-I think if you read the post the patient was diagnosed with a large tumor, with the goal of reducing the tumor to save the breast.....the standard of care is to test the tumor for hormone status and her/2. Yes the initial goal was to cure the cancer and have surgery which is stage 2 o3 3.J asked about Herceptin which I added that would have been tested and treated during the initial curative treatment.

I said palliative care is an option for stage IV, while some elect to have chemo. Chemo has been shown to prolong life in Stage IV Breast Cancer. It is a whole new ball game when diagnosis stage IV.