Breast Cancer: Treatment
Breast Cancer
Treatment
The vast majority of women now survive breast cancer. In this section, you'll find some of the leading breast cancer doctors in the world talking you through the options for the earlier stages of breast cancer.
Treatment: Choosing Your Treatment
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: Surgical Options
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: Stage Zero Breast Cancer
Treatment: Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer
The Oncotype DX test is a genetic test that profiles the tumors of women who have early-stage hormone receptor-positive, HER2 negative breast cancer. The test can help predict the risk of your breast cancer returning. After surgery, a piece of the tumor is sent off to be tested. The result is a number otherwise known as the "Oncotype DX score." The score determines if a woman is at low, intermedia... Read More
Treatment: Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Treatment: HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
Women who are diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer have high levels of the HER2 protein on the outside of their cancer cells. For patients with early-stage disease, meaning they have relatively small tumors and no lymph involvement, a number of HER2-directed therapies have dramatically changed the landscape. These include drugs like Herceptin and Perjeta. According to Dr. Elizabeth Comen, a... Read More
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.
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 often be even more devastating because, as Dr Partridge says, the cancer is likel... 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.