Authors
Fatima Cardoso, Shani Paluch-Shimon, Eva Schumacher-Wulf, Leonor Matos, Karen Gelmon, Matti S Aapro, Jyoti Bajpai, Carlos H Barrios, Jonas Bergh, Elizabeth Bergsten-Nordström, Laura Biganzoli, Maria João Cardoso, Lisa A Carey, Mariana Chavez-MacGregor, Runcie Chidebe, Javier Cortés, Giuseppe Curigliano, Rebecca A Dent, Nagi S El Saghir, Alexandru Eniu, Lesley Fallowfield, Prudence A Francis, Sandra X Franco Millan, Jenny Gilchrist, Joseph Gligorov, William J Gradishar, Renate Haidinger, Nadia Harbeck, Xichun Hu, Ranjit Kaur, Belinda Kiely, Sung-Bae Kim, Smruti Koppikar, Marion JJ Kuper-Hommel, Frédéric E Lecouvet, Ginny Mason, Shirley A Mertz, Volkmar Mueller, Claire Myerson, Silvia Neciosup, Birgitte V Offersen, Shinji Ohno, Olivia Pagani, Ann H Partridge, Frédérique Penault-Llorca, Aleix Prat, Hope S Rugo, Elzbieta Senkus, George W Sledge, Sandra M Swain, Christoph Thomssen, Daniel A Vorobiof, Peter Vuylsteke, Theresa Wiseman, Binghe Xu, Alberto Costa, Larry Norton, Eric P Winer
Publication date
2024/8/1
Journal
The Breast
Volume
76
Pages
103756
Publisher
Churchill Livingstone
Description
This manuscript describes the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) international consensus guidelines updated at the last two ABC international consensus conferences (ABC 6 in 2021, virtual, and ABC 7 in 2023, in Lisbon, Portugal), organized by the ABC Global Alliance. It provides the main recommendations on how to best manage patients with advanced breast cancer (inoperable locally advanced or metastatic), of all breast cancer subtypes, as well as palliative and supportive care. These guidelines are based on available evidence or on expert opinion when a higher level of evidence is lacking. Each guideline is accompanied by the level of evidence (LoE), grade of recommendation (GoR) and percentage of consensus reached at the consensus conferences. Updated diagnostic and treatment algorithms are also provided. The guidelines represent the best management options for patients living with ABC globally …