View Stage Iv Metastatic Breast Cancer Ribbon Images. Breast cancer stage helps your doctors make treatment recommendations based on tumor size and other characteristics of the cancer. If someone has breast cancer come back in a part of the body away from the breast, the person and doctors usually consider that cancer to be stage iv/metastatic.
It is also called advanced cancer, secondary breast cancer, or metastatic breast cancer. Stage 4 breast cancer can be treated, but it is considered incurable. Patients diagnosed with stage iv or metastatic breast cancers have disease that has spread from the affected breast to one or more distant sites in the body.
Metastatic breast cancer is the most advanced stage (stage iv) of breast cancer.
Learn more about breast cancer stages. It is also called advanced cancer, secondary breast cancer, or metastatic breast cancer. Advanced breast cancer (also known as metastatic, secondary or stage iv breast cancer) refers to cancer that has spread (or metastasised). These medicines are sometimes given to women with metastatic breast cancer.