Posts Tagged ‘Treatment of Breast Cancer’
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 »
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.
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About Breast Cancer
A breast is made up of three parts: glands, ducts, and connective tissue. The glands produce milk. The ducts are passages that carry milk to the nipple. The connective tissue (composed of fibrous and fatty tissue) connects and holds everything together.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in North America and Europe. Nearly 200,000 cases of breast cancer was diagnosed in the United States in 2001. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American women lung cancer. The risk the life of a woman developing breast cancer is about 1 in 8 although the lifetime risk of dying from breast cancer is much lower than 1-28. Men are also at risk of developing breast cancer, although this risk is much lower for women. Read the rest of this entry »
Treatment of Breast Cancer
Treatment is determined by tumor size and whether there has been spread to lymph or other body areas. Usually, when the tumor is less than 1 centimeter in diameter, surgery is enough to end cancer and chemotherapy is not needed. However, there are few cases that do not require an adjunct to surgery or with chemotherapy or hormone therapy. Currently the most important prognostic factor remains the lymph node: the number of involved nodes oncologist to help select subsequent treatment.
The surgical procedure was always done by a surgeon / gynecologist expert in breast cancer, allows local control of the disease and carry out an accurate diagnosis because it can determine the characteristics of the tumor and the number of nodes affected by malignant cells .
Radiotherapy is the use of high-energy rays such as X rays, to destroy or decrease the number of cancer cells. Local treatment is given after conservative surgery (when used after mastectomy is because it believes that there is a risk that the tumor is played). It develops over about 20-30 days (the oncologist and the radiologist felt it appropriate), and the patient goes to an outpatient clinic or room where radiation therapy is performed, does not have to be hospitalized for it.
As such, the treatment lasts a few minutes. It is not painful but it is something like an X-ray radiation only is greater and is concentrated in the affected area. What is achieved with radiotherapy is to reduce the size of the tumor, then surgery to remove or, upon completion of the operation, clear the area of malignant cells.