Treatments for MBC fall into different categories. You may hear terms like targeted therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and immunotherapy. These are all systemic treatments, meaning that they are taken by mouth or injection and go throughout the body. Understanding these different terms is important because it helps you understand the choices you have.
Click the links below to learn more about different types of treatment for MBC and clinical trials that are studying these types of treatments.
Targeted Therapy Compared to Chemotherapy
- American Cancer Society: Targeted therapy keeps cancer cells from growing and is more specific to cancer cells, whereas chemotherapy kills cancer cells and affects cancer cells and normal cells
Hormone Therapy
Immunotherapy
- Susan G. Komen: Immunotherapy enhances the immune system’s ability to find and kill cancer cells
- Cancer Research Institute: Immunotherapy treatments can be drugs or modified immune cells
MBC Clinical Trials
- Metastatic Trial Search: Trials for Targeted Therapy
- Metastatic Trial Search: Trials for Chemotherapy
- Metastatic Trial Search: Trials for Hormone Therapy
- Metastatic Trial Search: Trials for Immunotherapy
Last Modified on September 3, 2024