Health Topicscancerbreast cancerAsk the Experts: Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatments

Ask the Experts: Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatments

By Michael Gollust

Medically reviewed in July 2021

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.

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