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The researchers also saw that treatment with the drug dasatinib inhibits the formation of bone metastasis by human breast cancer cells inoculated into mice.
However, a question still remains as to whether this 'oncosurgical' approach [1] should apply to all patients, especially to those with a single resectable metachronous metastasis.
When a metastasis is limited to the lung in an asymptomatic patient with no locoregional recurrence, metastasectomy might provide some long-term benefit, although we cannot know for certain.
 
 
 
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