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What Are the Treatment Options For Breast Cancer

23 January 2012 171 views No Comment

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One of the most feared disease that women are breast cancer. Breast cancer can actually be cured if we detect it early. In my previous article, I have written about how to detect early symptoms of breast cancer. Handling and treatment of breast cancer depends on the type and stage experienced by patients. They are generally known to suffer from breast cancer after stepping up stadiums are quite severe, this is due to a lack of knowledge or embarrassment so it’s too late for medicine was examined for abnormalities that it faces. Breast cancer treatment can be done with surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormonal treatment, and Herceptin treatment.

Treatment of Breast Cancer

1. Surgery, the breast cancer is known from an early age then surgery is the appropriate action. The doctor will remove the lump and a small area surrounding the muscle tissue and replace it with another (lumpectomy). Broadly speaking, there are three measures of breast cancer surgery or operations including;

Radical Mastectomy, ie surgical removal of part of the breast (lumpectomy). This operation is always followed by the provision of radiotherapy. Lumpectomy is usually recommended in patients with large tumors less than 2 cm and located at the edge of the breast.
Total Mastectomy, ie surgical removal of the entire breast, but not the glands in the armpit.
Modified Radical Mastectomy, ie surgical removal of the entire breast, breast tissue in the sternum, collarbone and ribs, as well as lump around the armpit.

2. Radiation for breast cancer treatment ie the process of irradiation to the affected area of ??cancer usin

X-rays and gamma rays are aimed at killing any remaining cancer cells in the breast after surgery. This action has the effect of unfavorable as the body becomes weak, poor appetite, color of skin around the breast to black, as well as hemoglobin and leukocytes tended to decline as a result of radiation.

3. Hormone treatment for breast cancer, This is known as ‘anti-estrogen therapy’ that the system works to block the ability of the hormone estrogen in stimulating breast cancer development.

4. Chemotherapy for breast cancer treatment, This is the process of anti-cancer drugs in pill form or capsules or liquid through an IV that aims to kill cancer cells. The system is expected to reach the target in the treatment of cancer that may have spread other body gets. The impact of Chemotherapy are patients experience nausea and vomiting and hair loss due to the influence of drugs given during chemotherapy.

5. Herceptin treatment is biological therapy is known to be effective against HER2-positive in women who have breast cancer stage II, III and IV with cancer cell spread.