Health Topicscancerbreast cancerAsk the experts: metastatic breast cancer treatments

Ask the experts: metastatic breast cancer treatments

Written by Michael Gollust. Medically reviewed in February 2023 by Joanne Perron, MD.

Updated on October 22, 2024.

In this video, Darria Long Gillespie, MD, an emergency physician and Sharecare’s Senior Vice President of Clinical Strategy, discusses chemotherapy, radiation and other therapies used to treat breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

Medically reviewed in July 2018.

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