Understanding Breast Cancer Radiotherapy
Even though radiotherapy is a standard treatment for most types of cancer, there are quite a few patients suffering from breast cancer that question the need for it after surgical removal of breast cancer tissues. It is a fact that around 30% of women that do not undergo radiotherapy experience cancer recurrence, even though they have gone through surgery to remove the cancerous tumor from their breast. Physicians often find it quite difficult to differentiate the healthy tissue around the cancer since it is somewhat complicated in measuring with detail the amounts of cancer cells. There is a possibility that there might be skip areas between cancerous tissues and tiny difficult to find satellite cancer tumors surrounding the area. It is also possible for cancer cells to travel via the breast duct system and develop outside the location of biopsy. Radiotherapy is very beneficial since it has a better likelihood [...]
New Breast Cancer Treatment Options for Patients
Among all other diseases, the most common disease that makes a number of women to suffer these days is the breast cancer. Not only that it makes women suffer but it is also increasing the number of womens death rate yearly. Because of this increasing rate, people who are experts when it comes to medicine have developed a lot of ways to examine if they have early stages of cancer to prevent it. Aside from breast cancer examination, experts in the medical field tries to develop new treatment methods in order to help lower down womens death rate because of breast cancer. For more than several years, lumpectomies and mastectomies have been the undisputable way of treating cancer. However, they can have their own benefits and also disadvantages for women. As an example, lumpectomy will still need to require several days or weeks of post-operative treatments or procedures through radiation [...]
What is breast cancer survival rate
Prognosis is a medical term that refers to the description of the likely outcome related to an illness or disease. It gives an estimate of a patient’s survival rate. Breast cancer survival rate is based on many factors of the cancer. The type of cancer, treatment options, lifestyle and habits, as well as genetics play important roles in breast cancer survival. Breast cancer survival rate may be based on a standard five-year survival rate which estimates a patient’s prognosis through statistical data. The five year survival rate is the average number of patients who exceed the 5 year survival measure after being diagnosed. Five year survival rates exclude patients who die from other causes. A good number of breast cancer patients live much longer than 5 years after diagnosis. Although logically, the greater the cancer stage, the lesser the breast cancer survival rate. Averaging of survival rates are based on [...]
Breast Cancer Treatment
After diagnosis, a breast cancer treatment of choice is decided between the health care providers and patients. Such choice is generally dependent on the patient’s preference, but necessarily, it is reliant to the stage, risk factors of appearance, other unique features of the tumor, and the overall physical condition. Some breast cancer treatments are common in treatment of other cancer types. Breast cancer treatment categories are divided into surgery options, chemotherapy, radiation, hormonal therapy, and other complementary therapies. Surgery can be performed in several ways. The most common surgical procedures applied in breast cancer treatment are lumpectomy, mastectomy, and segmental excision. Lumpectomy is the elimination of the breast lump which requires radiotherapy after the procedure to make sure that the tumor does not return.
Factors in Determining Breast Cancer Survival Rate
Hearing the word breast cancer, the thing that will come into mind of the patient is whether it can still be treated and what will be the chances of her surviving this disease. For most patients, this serves as their basis whether they are going to continue with the medications or not. Other patients will just think that they would rather not go into medications if they are going to die anyway. With this, here are several factors in reading and knowing the breast cancer survival rate. If you want to know the survival rate of breast cancer patients, there are several factors that are included in determining the survival rate of these patients. First of all is the time. In general, patients who have been diagnosed with breast cancer are only given 5 years that can reach up to 10 years of survival. Another factor that is taken into [...]
Understanding what really causes breast cancer…
I just go an email wiht the following question: just want somebody to tell me everything I need to know about breast cancer.What causes it,is it generic,are there foods or other things we use in our daily lives that actually cause it like perfumes? How about chemicals found in the preservatives used in packed or canned foods things like MSG .I would appreciate it if someone clarified this for me. For sure an interesting question…. what do you guys think?
What is Breast Cancer
I received an email yesterday, requesting me to write about what is breast cancer. To start to explain exactly what is breast cancer I need to give you an overall info about this type of cancer. Malignant tumors are those that penetrate healthy body tissues. Malignant tumors, on the other hand, are dangerous and capable of growing rapidly and invading other tissues beyond their site of origin. Theoretically, any of the types of tissue in the breast can form a cancer, but usually it begins in the ducts or the glands. Cells normally grow and divide only when they are needed to keep our bodies functioning properly. But sometimes, the mechanisms that regulate cell growth stop working and cells divide out of control to form tumors. Cells in malignant tumors can penetrate and destroy healthy body tissues. Cancer cells can also break away from tumors and travel, or metastasize , [...]