Breast cancer with chemotherapy followed by surgery may be locally advanced or systemically advanced.
After the occurrence of breast cancer, if the size of the tumor is relatively large, the tumor invades the chest wall or skin, or lymph node metastasis occurs, and the metastatic lymph nodes are fused and fixed, but there is no distant metastasis, it is called locally advanced breast cancer, and it can be treated with chemotherapy first and then surgery.
Breast cancer is a common malignant tumor, there is a possibility of metastasis, including lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis, etc. If distant metastasis occurs, such as liver metastasis, bone metastasis, brain metastasis, etc., usually it cannot be directly treated by surgery, and it can be treated by chemotherapy and then surgery, which is called systemically advanced breast cancer.
Therefore, breast cancer patients should seek medical treatment as early as possible.