Breast Cancer Cure

Nowadays, the cure rate of breast cancer is high, with a survival rate of 97% in five years, when diagnosed in the early stages. Soon the early diagnosis is very important. Breast cancer treatment is individual, i.e. varies depending on the time of development of the disease in the body. However, there are common procedures adopted, such as hormone therapy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and/or surgery, in isolation or in combination.

Hormone therapy is useful for tumors with estrogen and progesterone receptor positive, since in this type of case, the tumors feed on the hormones to grow with this through hormone treatment, there are blocking this growth.

Radiotherapy can be made before and/or after the affected sinus removal surgery (mastectomy). Before, aiming to decrease the size of the tumor in order to facilitate the withdrawal and then seeking to kill possible leftover tumor cells near the tumor removed.

Chemotherapy, which is stronger, can be given orally or intravenously, seeking to kill cells that are spread throughout the body. The combination of certain drugs is more effective than when individual. Noting that in all of these procedures to side effects such as swelling, malaise, etc.

Some factors that should be considered by the oncologist for treatment of the patient are: analyze the stage and grade of the tumor, the presence of hormone receptors in tumor, patient profile (such as age, overall health, the family disease history, if you're already in menopause or not). The achievement of common within mastectomy is affected for most cases in addition to the adjacent procedures already mentioned.