Breast cancer treatment

Breast cancer treatment, with surgery, and then possibly,

with chemotherapy, or radiation, or both.

Hormone, positive, cancers, with long term hormone,

blocking therapy.

It is given with increasing, aggressiveness,

according to the prognosis, and risk, of recurrence.

Stage 1 cancers ,(and DCIS) have an excellent, prognosis, and

are generally, treated, with lumpectomy, and sometimes radiation.

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Stage 2 cancer

stage 2+ cancers, should be-with the trastuzumab,

(Herceptin) regime.Chemotherapy is uncommon for other types of

stage 1 cancers.

Stage 2 and 3 cancers, with a progressively poorer,

prognosis,

and greater risk, of recurrence,

are generally with with surgery,(lumpectomy or mastectomy

with or without lymph node removal),

chemotherapy (plus trastuzumab for HER2+ cancers),

and sometimes radiation, (particularly following large cancers,

multiple positive nodes, or lumpectomy).

Metastatic cancer

Stage 4, metastatic cancer, (i.e. spread to distant sites)

has poor, prognosis, and is managed by various combination of all,

from surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and targeted therapies.

10 year, survival rate, is 5% without treatment, and 10% with

optimal treatment.

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Family History

There are many new breast-cancer-treatments available,

which may include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy,

and hormone therapy.

The risk for breast-cancer is also affected by family history,

The risk increases further if the relative is close

such as a mother, aunt or daughter.

There has recently been found what is thought to be

a cancer gene which can be passed down from mother to daughter.

Cancer cells

Cancer cells commonly spread from the breast to lymph nodes

in underarm and chest areas.

When cancer cells break away from the primary (original) tumor,

and travel through the lymph or blood to other places

in the body, another (secondary) tumor may form.

The majority of breast-cancers are referred to as invasive

breast-cancers because they have grown or "invaded" beyond

the ducts or lobules of the breast into the surrounding tissue

Several invasive breast-cancers.