What are the different types of breast cancer treatments? Advances in medicine have led to the discovery and improvement of several treatment options for breast cancer. The therapies suit the type and stage of the tumour and the patient’s lifestyle, so talking to your doctor and making decisions together is a very important step! Therapy …
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Free stock photo from pexels.com Breast cancer can manifest itself in different ways. Knowing your main types helps you better understand what’s going on. We call stage the size or extent of breast cancer. It is a very important factor in making decisions about treatment options. Therapeutic intervention and treatment time largely depend on the …
Image under license from shutterstock.com Breast cancer can manifest itself in different ways. Therefore, knowing the main types helps to identify their signs more quickly and seek medical help, as well as helping to understand the treatment options available. It can be done, for example, to remove the tumor, find out if it has spread …
Image under license from shutterstock.com Radiotherapy is one of the medical procedures that can be applied in the treatment of breast cancer. The need for it will depend, however, on factors such as the type of surgery and whether the tumor has spread to the lymph nodes or another part of the body. It is …
Hormone therapy is suitable for treating breast cancer that relies on female hormones (estrogen and/or progesterone) to grow. Its mechanism of action is to reduce the production of these hormones or to prevent them from touching the cancer cells and having an effect. It is recommended that women with hormone-positive (ER-positive and/or PR-positive) breast cancer …
Chemotherapy is the use of medications to kill cancer cells or prevent them from growing. Because chemotherapy does not distinguish between breast cancer cells and healthy cells in the patient, it usually causes side effects such as hair loss or nausea. Chemotherapy is usually administered intravenously (via injection). Although some patients may be given oral …
In cancer treatment, neoadjuvant chemotherapy refers to treatment that is given before surgery. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is usually used to treat breast cancer whose tumour characteristics may make complete surgery challenging initially. The objective is to shrink the tumour so that it then becomes possible for surgery to be performed smoothly. In recent years, neoadjuvant chemotherapy …
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In cancer treatment, “post-operative adjuvant treatment” refers to supplementary treatment given after surgery. Photo under license from shutterstock.com Adjuvant treatment is used to find and eliminate cancer cells that may remain after surgery. These cancer cells are often invisible to the eye, even in imaging tests. The goal of adjuvant treatment is to reduce the …
Targeted drugs are aimed at specific mutations/pathways in cancer cells. For example, in HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) breast cancer, the surfaces of the breast cancer cells have an overabundance of the HER2 protein (that is, they have an over-expression of HER2). So treatment will be more effective if the patient receives targeted …
