Hormone Therapy for Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer
Hormone therapy for breast cancer is one line of defense in the vast tool kit for treatment. It’s used for hormone receptor-positive cancers which are actually the most common breast cancers. When a tumor is “hormone receptor-positive,” it means that a pathologist has done special tests on the cancer to determine that it is positive for either the estrogen and/or progesterone receptor. What that means is the cancer needs the hormones estrogen and/or progesterone to grow.
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Hormone therapy for breast cancer is one line of defense in the vast tool kit for treatment. It’s used for hormone receptor-positive cancers which are actually the most common breast cancers. When a tumor is “hormone receptor-positive,” it means that a pathologist has done special tests on the cancer to determine that it is positive for either the estrogen and/or progesterone receptor. What that means is the cancer needs the hormones estrogen and/or progesterone to grow.
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Treatment: Choosing Your Treatment
Treatment: Early Stages
Treatment: Hormone Treatments
A mastectomy involves removing the breast – a treatment route many patients with breast cancer feel they will have no choice but to undergo. But it’s not the only surgical option.
Treatment: Surgery
A mastectomy involves removing the breast – a treatment route many patients with breast cancer feel they will have no choice but to undergo. But it’s not the only surgical option.
Treatment: Explaining the Options
For patients who do have to have their breasts or a piece of their breasts removed, there are a number of surgical reconstruction options available.
Treatment: Reconstruction
For patients who do have to have their breasts or a piece of their breasts removed, there are a number of surgical reconstruction options available.
Lymphedema is a chronic swelling that can occur after breast cancer surgery and radiation.
Treatment: Lymphedema
Lymphedema is a chronic swelling that can occur after breast cancer surgery and radiation.