Stage 4 Breast Cancer - Part 4/4 - "Treatment of stage 4, triple-negative breast cancers"

Part 4 of Stage 4 Breast Cancer for the "If I Were Your Family Member" Cancer Patient Series is directed toward patients with breast cancers that are triple-negative (do not make the estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, or HER2).

Patients with stage 4 breast cancer that are triple negative should watch the following "If I Were Your Family Member" talks in sequence:

1) Optimizing Your ability to fight cancer
2) Stage 4 Breast Cancer Part 1
3) This talk (Stage 4 Breast Cancer Part 4)
of the "If I Were Your Family Member" Cancer Patient Series.


Dr. Basem Goueli MD, Ph.D., MBA does things you have never seen as he discusses:
1) Understanding the protein expression profile of your cancer (Estrogen Receptor, Progesterone Receptor, HER2)
2) Overview of stage 4 triple negative breast cancer
3) No 2 stage 4 triple negative breast cancers are the same
4) Playing chess, not checkers, against cancer
5) Molecular profiling overview
6) Discussion of immunotherapy and its role in treating stage 4 triple negative breast cancer
7) Discussion of olaparib and BRCA1 and BRCA2 inhibitors.
8) Walking you through your personalized breast cancer journey
9) Determining the bullets in the gun to fight your cancer
10) Discussion of bullet 1 (first-line treatment) with discussion of immunotherapy side effects
11) Discussion of bullet 2 (second-line treatment)
12) Discussion of bullet 3 onward (third-line treatment onward)
13) Brain metastases in breast cancer and the use of radiation, surgery (rare), and drugs that cross the blood-brain barrier

This episode builds off of part 1/4 of stage 4 breast cancer in this series and should be viewed in the sequence above.