Breast Cancer: Treatment
Breast Cancer: Treatment
Treatment for breast cancer can vary greatly depending on the stage and the specific features of the disease, which are crucial to understand. Here, you'll find information and treatment options for important subtypes of breast cancer.
Treatment: Choosing Your Treatment
Treatment: The Latest Developments
Treatment: Surgical 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.
Treatment: Stage Zero Breast Cancer
Treatment: Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer
Treatment: Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Treatment: HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
Young Women & Breast Cancer
There are about 11,000 women aged 40 and under diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the U.S. says Dr Ann Partridge, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. That's a small percentage of the 260,000 women diagnosed annually in this country. But in some ways a diagnosis for a younger woman can o... Read More
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.