Introduction to Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer
If you’ve been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, there are a handful of treatment options for you to consider. This section aims to explain what those options are, and when something like a lumpectomy or a mastectomy is necessary.
In addition to providing information about treatment and the different types of cancer, the goal at SurvivorNet is to provide answers to other questions you may have after a diagnosis – like how you can adjust your lifestyle, or whether something like genetic testing is necessary.
Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process.
If you’ve been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, there are a handful of treatment options for you to consider. This section aims to explain what those options are, and when something like a lumpectomy or a mastectomy is necessary.
In addition to providing information about treatment and the different types of cancer, the goal at SurvivorNet is to provide answers to other questions you may have after a diagnosis – like how you can adjust your lifestyle, or whether something like genetic testing is necessary.
Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process.
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.