| Treatment for breast cancer involves many types of | | | | treatments on breast cancer also include targeted |
| approaches. The initial diagnosis and clinical work up is | | | | radiation. This is more effective and prevents injury |
| the guide to the type of treatment you will | | | | to the surrounding healthy cells as well. Radiation can |
| undergo.There are some criteria on which your | | | | now be delivered in appropriate doses with lesser |
| cancer treatment depends like the cellular composition | | | | side effects. |
| of the cancer, the size of the tumor, the stage of | | | | Chemotherapy is considered systemic therapy as it |
| cancer you have and your hormonal status. You | | | | targets cancer cells in the entire body. New schedules |
| general health status also plays a role in deciding the | | | | of chemotherapy include adjuvant and neoadjuvant |
| line of treatment. This article will take you through | | | | therapy. These can also be supplemented by a stem |
| some of the latest treatments on breast cancer. | | | | cell or bone marrow transplant which is useful in |
| Surgery and radiation therapy are most effective | | | | cases where the immune system is severely |
| when the tumor is localized to the breast and can be | | | | depressed. Stem cell therapy has become the |
| easily removed. Benign tumors and small sized tumors | | | | cynosure of all eyes as it offers unbelievable potential |
| are treated in this way. The latest treatments on | | | | in cases like breast cancer. Stem cell therapy is one |
| breast cancer include advances in chemotherapy, | | | | of the latest treatments on breast cancer. It allows |
| hormonal therapy and biologic therapy. These are | | | | the patient to receive stem cells which have the |
| used in advanced stages of cancer when the tumor | | | | potential to turn into any of the body's cells and |
| is no longer confined just to the breast. They are | | | | replicate at a faster pace to combat the cancer cells. |
| used in metastatic cancer which has spread to other | | | | Targeted biologic therapies are another chapter in the |
| parts of the body as well. | | | | latest treatments on breast cancer. These therapies |
| Breast cancer surgery aims at removing the bulk of | | | | are designed to disrupt cellular processes that |
| the cancerous tissue. Better surgical options have | | | | contribute to the continued growth of cancer cells. |
| emerged which give patients the chance to undergo | | | | Such therapies include drugs like Tykerb, Herceptin, |
| reconstruction surgery after a mastectomy. Surgery | | | | Avastin and Iressa. Breast cancers are frequently |
| may also be in the form of a breast or lymph node | | | | dependent on estrogen for their growth. |
| biopsy which is done for a diagnosis. Latest | | | | Anti-estrogen hormone therapy starves tumor cells |
| treatments on breast cancer have surgical options | | | | of the estrogen they need to grow, resulting in |
| which include a prophylactic mastectomy or a | | | | cancer cell death. This type of therapy may be |
| removal of the ovaries in some cases. | | | | delivered before surgery, or concurrently with |
| Radiation therapy destroys the cancer cells and | | | | radiation. |
| prevents them from proliferating within the body. | | | | Hormone therapies can include estrogen receptor |
| This helps prevent the spread of cancer. Radiations | | | | blockers, aromatase inhibitors, oopherectomy and |
| has also advanced by leaps and bounds. The latest | | | | chemical ovarian suppression. |