In addition to the information on this site, you might find the following helpful:
AdvancedBC.org is dedicated solely to the needs of people living with metastatic breast cancer. Here you will find links to online resources, information about research and treatments, and the perspectives of Musa Mayer, long-time advocate and author.
BrainMetsbc.org offers women with metastatic breast cancer and their families a place to learn about brain metastases from a patient perspective. This website is a source for the latest information about this form of the disease, as well as for personal stories from women who’ve been there about what it’s like to be diagnosed and treated for “brain mets.”
Evidence-Based Medicine: IBC Watch – “IBC Watch is a unique service providing the latest best evidence-based guidance on the treatment of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), annotated with critical commentaries, clinical practice lessons and recommendations. Critical appraisal and systematic review is undertaken aggressively with major updates monthly, and at least weekly revisions for high-impact findings.“
2003: Treatment – An Adobe PDF copy of an article on the treatment of IBC.
The Spinoza Trial – “Local treatment with surgery and radiotherapy gives unsatisfactory results in patients with locally advanced cancer. In many cases distant metastases appear shortly after the removal of the primary tumor. Selecting breast cancer as a model for locally advanced disease, we are extrapolating our findings to other solid tumors.“
Your HER2 Status – “Herceptin® (Trastuzumab), as part of a treatment regimen containing doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel, is indicated for the adjuvant treatment of patients with HER2-overexpressing, node-positive breast cancer.“
IBC Research Foundation’s Breast Pain page
The Median Isn’t the Message – “It is the antidote both to those who say that, “the statistics don’t matter,” and to those who have the unfortunate habit of pronouncing death sentences on patients who face a difficult prognosis. Anyone who researches the medical literature will confront the statistics for their disease. Anyone who reads this will be armed with reason and with hope.“
Triple Negative Breast Cancer – “It is only in the last few years that professionals studying breast cancer have concluded that breast cancer is not one disease, but many different forms of cancer all originating in the breast. Depending on its stage of diagnosis, triple negative breast cancer can be extremely aggressive and more likely to recur and metastasize than other subtypes of breast cancer.“
