Breast Cancer Surgery
when do i have radiation only after breast cancer surgery? when i heal from surgery? or right away?
The primary and initial treatment for the majority of breast cancers is surgery. (The rare exception nowadays is that for very advanced or cancers with special skin involvement, many oncologists recommend starting with chemotherapy prior to surgery.) Historically, the main surgical treatment was a mastectomy – or removal of the entire breast. As surgery got more advanced, and pathology got better, and doctors learned that many women would really like to keep their breast if they could (doctors have always been a bit slow to realize the obvious), then “lumpectomy” – or removal of a small amount of breast tissue with the goal of removing the entire tumour and a certain amount of surrounding normal breast tissue – became much more common.
The challenge here was that despite good lumpectomies, that looked like they
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Is there a symbol for the Smoking? Cause theres one for Breast cancer like the pink thingy?
For smoking?? Yeah, it should be the “Mr Yuk” face.
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Breast Cancer Stages: Importance of Knowing Breast Cancer Stages
Determining the breast cancer stages is important since it enables the patient and doctor to identify the treatment necessary for one’s condition. Also, it is essential in assessing the risk of the given condition and what lifestyle changes the patient can do to improve their health.
Identifying A Breast Cancer’s Stage
When talking about breast cancer stages, it is aimed at describing the extent of the cancer in the body. So, if you ask how a breast cancer is staged, doctors often start to classify whether it is invasive or non-invasive. Other factors considered are the tumor size, number of nymph modes involved, and what other parts of the body it has managed to affect.
Determining a cancer’s stage is helpful during prognosis and deciding on a treatment option.
To determine the stage, a few standard procedures are done by the doctor on a
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2nd time Breast Cancer… survival rates?
My mother was just diagnosed with breast cancer for the 2nd time at age 53. She had breast cancer 14 years ago (at age 38), had the lump removed and under went chemo and radiation. She recently found a another lump in the same breast and it has tested positive. Any one have any experiences with a 2nd round of breast cancer and what the survival rates are??? They don’t know what stage it is yet or if it has spread, until they do surgery and more tests, so I know I’m jumping the gun. I’m just so nervous and wondering if anyone else has dealt with a similar experience. To make matters worse, she has had some heart complications in recent years due to the first chemotherapy treatments. It had damaged and weakened her heart and she
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All Forms of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Increase Breast Cancer Risk
One of the most common questions that I am asked is if there are any safe forms of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women who are experiencing severe symptoms associated with menopause. Since the release of the preliminary results of the pivotal Women’s Health Initiative study, in 2002, which clearly showed that standard combination HRT (containing the two primary female sex hormones) was associated with a significant increase in the risk of developing breast cancer, a number of alternative “safer” forms of HRT have been proposed. These alternative forms of HRT have included transdermal estrogen patches (which are placed on the skin) and other forms of “bioidentical” HRT hormones.
Advocates of transdermal estrogen patches note that the adverse effects of estrogen-based HRT pills on cholesterol, as well as their association with an increased risk of
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