Long-Lasting Complete Remission (15 Years) of Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC): A Case Report - Abstract
We report a case of a patient with MBC (lymph nodes, cutaneous, gastric, ovaric and peritoneal metastasis) at diagnosis who had an enduring clinical complete remission
and survival. She received systemic treatments such as chemo and hormonal therapies with very few side effects, good quality of life and did not receive any surgery. She
discontinued oncologic treatment and follow-up for physical impairment after 15 years without documented progressive disease. Survival and outcome of MBC has increased
in the last 25 years due to the introduction of new drugs and accuracy of predicting survival and response to different treatment strategies. We also discussed the benefit
of surgery of primary tumors in de novo MBC which remains a debating issue.