Complete excision of primary tumour to improve survival of metastatic cancer patients

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Complete Excision of Primary Breast Tumor Improves Survival of Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer at Diagnosis

http://www.jco.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/18/2743

In this article, which studied 300 women, those with only bone metastases had increased survival, if the excision took care of the margins.



If this is confirmed by larger populations of patients it would run contrary to current standard thinking in the medical community that surgery of primary tumours in metastatic patients is useless in changing outcomes in all cases.