University Hospital for Tumors, University Hospital Center Sestre milosrdnice
Abstract
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Early breast cancer is potentially curable disease. Systemic adjuvant therapy is created to treat micrometastatic disease or destroy breast cancer cells that have spread from the breast and regional lymph nodes, but have not yet formed visible distant metastases. Systemic adjuvant therapy is based on chemotherapy
with or without targeted therapy, and endocrine therapy, sometimes in combination with adjuvant irradiation, usually is conducted after surgery. The aim of adjuvant therapy is to decrease recurrence rate and extension of overall survivalRak dojke najčešća je zloćudna bolest u žena, potencijalno izlječiva u ranom stadiju. Sustavno adjuvantno liječenje osmišljeno je za uništenje mogućih mikrometastaza proširenih iz dojke i/ili iz regionalnih limfnih čvorova, koje još nisu stvorile vidljive udaljene metastaze. Temelji se na kemoterapiji sa ili bez ciljane biološke terapije, na endokrinoj terapiji,
ponekad u kombinaciji sa zračenjem, obično nakon kirurškog zahvata. Cilj je smanjiti stopu povratka bolesti i produžiti život bolesnika
