Managing Symptoms When MBC Spreads to the Bones
Bone is the most common site where MBC spreads, which can lead to pain and fractures. Click to read recommendations from experts and find clinical trials looking for ways to manage symptoms.
Managing Symptoms When MBC Spreads to the Bones
Bone is the most common site where MBC spreads, which can lead to pain and fractures. Click to read recommendations from experts and find clinical trials looking for ways to manage symptoms.
Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis: Highlighting the Experts
Hear from MBC experts about the latest bone mets research.
Exercise and Stage 4 Breast Cancer
Research studies are finding that exercise plays an important role in the care of metastatic (stage 4) breast cancer care–including after diagnosis.
We’ve rounded up on some articles, personal stories, research studies, and videos that highlight the importance of keeping–or introducing–exercise in your life. Activities can actually help reduce fatigue. It can even help with the pain. And it can help improve your quality of life.
Learn why it’s safe and beneficial in the articles below.
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- Breastcancer.org: Making Exercise Part of Your Metastatic Treatment Plan
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Exercise and MBC: Tips From a Survivor
- Oncology Nurse Advisor: Exercise Improves Quality of Life for Patients with Bone Metastases
- Unite for HER: Funding and delivering integrative and supportive therapies to help empower and restore your body, mind, and soul
Research studies
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- The ASCO Post: Exercise Counteracts Fatigue, Pain in Women with Advanced Cancer
- Journal of Pain and Symptom Management: Physical Activity for Symptom Management in Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Randomized Feasibility Trial on Physical Activity and Breast Metastases
Personal stories
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- FORCE-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered: Personal Story: Running Marathons with MBC? Yes!
Diagnosing & Treatment of Bone Metastases
When breast cancer spreads, one of the first sites it often goes to is bone. The articles below discuss diagnosis and treatment of bone metastases.
Bone metastases, like other types of metastases, are often treated with systemic treatments, such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy (if your cancer is estrogen or progesterone receptor-positive), targeted therapies, and bone-strengthening drugs. Radiation may also be used to treat certain metastatic sites.
Symptoms and Diagnosis of Bone Metastases
- Breastcancer.org: Bone Metastasis: Symptoms and Diagnosis
- Cancer Support Community: When Cancer Spreads to the Bone
- Mayo Clinic: Bone Metastasis: Diagnosis and Treatment
- NPJ Breast Cancer: MBC Patients with Bone-Only Metastases
- Our MBC Life (podcast): Your Guide to Bone Mets: The Basics with Dr. Azeez Farooki and Dr. Monica Fornier
- Susan G. Komen: Bone Metastases And Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Susan G. Komen: Metastatic Breast Cancer in the Bone: Questions to Ask Your Doctor
- Susan G. Komen: Metastatic Breast Cancer in the Bone: Bone Protection
Treatment Options For Bone Metastases
- American Cancer Society: Treating Bone Metastases
- National Cancer Institute: Radiation Therapy to Control Pain From Bone Metastases
- Breastcancer.org: Bone Metastases: Local Treatments
- Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research: Current Concepts in Bone Metastasis (Science Heavy)
- Metastatic Trial Search: Find clinical trials for MBC with bone metastases
- Our MBC Life (podcast): Your Guide to Bone Mets: Traditional & Innovative Approaches Using Radiation with Dr. Shalom Kalnicki and Dr. Rory Goodwin