17 Oct 2010

Type of General Medical breast cancer

Type of General Medical breast cancer - Treatment of breast cancer can be classified into major groups based on how they work and when they are used.

Local treatment of local or systemic treatment is used to treat tumors without affecting other body parts. Surgery and radiotherapy are examples of local treatment.

Systemic treatment is given into the bloodstream or by mouth and moves through the body to reach cancer cells that may have spread beyond the breast. Chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and targeted therapy of systemic treatment.

Neo-adjuvant therapy and adjuvant
When people seem to have no cancer left after surgery, but was given more medication, is called adjuvant therapy. At this time the doctor may think that cancer cells have to break away from the main tumor and spread through the bloodstream. It is difficult to know whether this is happening. But if this occurs, cancer cells can start to form new tumors in other organs or in bone. The goal of adjuvant therapy is to kill hidden cells. But not every patient needs this treatment.

Some people are given systemic treatment (most likely chemotherapy) before surgery to shrink the tumor. This is called neo-adjuvant therapy.

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