Aggressive Local Therapy for Limited Bone-Only Metastasis to Improve Progression-Free Survival in Breast Cancer Patients

"Chemotherapy and/or Endocrine Therapy:~For 3 - 9 months, all patients will receive systemic chemotherapy agents appropriate for the tumor characteristics and patient's prior treatment history, and may also be placed on endocrine therapy as determined by the treating medical oncologist."

"Surgery and/or Radiation Therapy~With no more than 3 bone metastases, local treatments including high-dose radiation therapy and/or surgery will be given. Radiation therapy involves daily treatments during weekdays that may last 5 to 7 weeks in a row. Each daily treatment may last 30 - 40 minutes. Surgery, including recovery, may last 4 to 6 weeks."