Posts Tagged ‘Breast Cancer’
Broccoli Helps Fight Cancer
Broccoli contains a substance that can fight cancer and prevent experts say at least.
And laboratory mice
Scientists tested the effects of sulforaphane, a compound in broccoli, in experiments with mice and cell cultures. They injected various concentrations of the component from broccoli in mice with breast cancer. This shows that the stem cells of cancer decreased after treatment with this substance, this had little effect on normal cells. Unlike chemotherapy, which causes the patient after treatment often feel ill. Read the rest of this entry »
The Role of Exercise During Cancer Treatment
The Role of Exercise During Cancer Treatment
Vigor Orbis, Orbis and Orbis Sports Medical Center will participate in research on effects of physical training during treatment cancer.
Although such research non-core part, we are pleased to deliver a contribution. This consists of project management at the research site Orbis Medical Center and conducting intakes, times of measurement and evaluation with the participants. We will keep you informed of the results. The study called PACT (Physical Activity consistently Cancer Treatment) is an initiative of the Comprehensive Cancer Centre Middle Netherlands and Limburg in collaboration with the University Medical Centre Utrecht and Maastricht. Read the rest of this entry »
From Breast Cancer Surgery
Surgery is usually the first line of attack against breast cancer. This section discusses the different types of surgery for breast cancer.
Decisions about surgery depend on many factors. You and your doctor determine the type of surgery that is best for you depending on the stage of cancer, cancer personality, and is acceptable for you in terms of your long-term peace of mind. Read the rest of this entry »
The signature of breast cancer
Good news for women! Quebec researchers are updating new molecular markers involved in the progression of breast cancer. This signature after the genomic open the door to easy and reliable test that could be done in the future, from a simple blood test!
“These markers allow us to know whether a tumor is present carcinogenic, but also to know its type and aggressiveness,” said Sheriff about Ella, Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Sherbrook. Read the rest of this entry »
Radiation breast cancer
Radiation therapy – also called radiotherapy – is highly targeted, very effective way to destroy breast cancer cells that stick around after the surgery. Radiation can reduce the risk of recurrence of breast cancer by about 70%. Despite what many are afraid of radiation is relatively easy to tolerate the side effects and is limited to the treated area.
The radiation treatments will be monitored by a radiation oncologist, a physician specializing in radiation therapy of tumors.
Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy is using a large machine called a linear accelerator for the precise amounts of high-energy rays to kill cancer cells provide. The radiation stops the reproduction of tumor cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissue. Radiation therapy has been shown that survival in women with breast cancer to improve. Read the rest of this entry »
Breast cancer chemo
Chemotherapy (chemotherapy) treatment with the cancer killing drugs are administered intravenously (by injection into a vein) or orally. The drugs travel through the bloodstream to reach cancer cells in many parts of the body. Chemotherapy is given in cycles, with each treatment period, followed by a recovery period. Treatment usually lasts several months.
Chemotherapy is the use of anti-cancer (cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells. The goal of chemotherapy is the maximum damage to cancer cells while doing so that the minimal damage to normal tissue. Women with chemotherapy for breast cancer:
before surgery to reduce cancer. This is known as neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Read the rest of this entry »
Treatment options for breast cancer
There was an explosion of life-saving treatment advances against breast cancer, leading to new hope and enthusiasm. Instead of just one or two options, today there is an overwhelming menu of treatment choices that the complex mix of cells in every fight against cancer. Decisions – surgery, radiation could, the anti-estrogen hormonal therapy, and / or chemotherapy – can be confusing.
After breast cancer is diagnosed and staged, the team recommended medical treatment. The treatment plan will be based on the type of cancer you have, the size, quality and biological characteristics of cancer, hormonal status, and your general health. Read the rest of this entry »
Treatment For Breast Cancer
Different types of treatment available for patients with breast cancer. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some have been tested in clinical trials. A treatment clinical trial is a study to improve current treatments or obtain information on new therapies for patients with cancer. When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment is the standard treatment. Patients may want to think about participating in a clinical trial. Some clinical trials are open only to patients who have not started treatment.
Surgery
Most patients with breast cancer surgery to remove breast cancer. Some lymph nodes under the arm are usually outside and looked under a microscope to see if they contain cancer cells.
Breast-sparing surgery, surgery to remove the tumor, but not the breast itself, includes the following: Read the rest of this entry »
Chemotherapy for breast cancer
In cancer treatment, chemotherapy refers to the use of drugs to kill or growth of a rapid multiplication of cells, such as the delay of cancer.
Chemotherapy usually contains a combination of drugs is often more effective than a single drug given alone. There are many combinations of drugs used to treat breast cancer. Ask your doctor for specific information and side effects can you expect from your chemotherapy drugs.
Because chemotherapy for breast cancer
Drugs for breast cancer chemotherapy intravenously (directly into a vein) or orally (by mouth). Once the drugs enter the bloodstream, they travel to all parts of the body to which cancer cells can spread outside the breast to achieve – so the chemotherapy is considered a “systemic” form of treatment for breast cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
Screening for Breast Cancer
Screening for breast cancer before symptoms are important. Screening can help doctors detect and treat cancer early. The treatment is more likely to work well when cancer is found early.
Your doctor may suggest the following screening tests for breast cancer:
Screening mammography
clinical breast examination
self-examination
you should tell your doctor about when to start and how often to check for breast cancer.
Screening mammograms Read the rest of this entry »