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Table 5 Palliative systemic therapy and radiotherapy

From: Radiotherapy in patients with distant metastatic breast cancer

 

No radiotherapy (175 patients)

Radiotherapy: all cases (165 patients)

Radiotherapy: bone (108 patients)

Radiotherapy: brain (55 patients)

No systemic therapy

32 (18.3)

13 (7.8)

9 (8.3)

6 (10.9)

Chemotherapy (CT) only

42 (24.0)

44 (26.7)

24 (22.2)

26 (47.3)

Endocrine therapy (ET) only

49 (28.0)

31 (18.8)

23 (21.3)

3 (5.4)

CT + ET

52 (29.7)

77 (46.7)

52 (48.2)

20 (36.4)

Median number of systemic therapy lines

2 (1-8)

3 (1-10)

3 (1-10)

3 (1-10)

  1. CT: chemotherapy; ET: endocrine therapy.