Long-term treatment with fulvestrant in breast cancer patient with metastases in liver and bones

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy, and therefore it is a very important problem in daily oncological practice. Systemic treatment of breast cancer involves hormonal therapy, chemotherapy and therapy targeted against receptors for epidermal growth factor. Hormonal therapy plays crucial role in treatment of hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer. It often allows to achieve long-term response with low toxicity of treatment. In this case report we present description of course of treatment in patient in whom fulvestrant allowed to obtain long-term objective clinical response.