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Treatment Introduction
These questions can help you work with your healthcare provider and make good decisions about your cancer care.
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Breast Cancer: Treatment Choices
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Treatment Introduction
The good news is that breast cancer can be treated successfully. Treatments include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or any combination of these. Here's a closer look at each.
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Chemotherapy may be able to cure breast cancer. If a cure isn't possible, chemotherapy may help keep the cancer from growing or spreading. Or it may help ease symptoms caused by cancer and improve your quality of life.
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Radiation
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Radiation
Radiation therapy is a breast cancer treatment choice that often uses X-rays to kill cancer cells. There are several ways to give radiation therapy to the breast cancer cells.
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Surgery
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Breast Cancer: Surgery
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Surgery to remove as much of the cancer as possible is the main treatment for breast cancer. Today, women have many surgical options and choices.
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Breast-Conserving Surgery
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Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) is sometimes called a lumpectomy or a partial mastectomy. It may be done as part of a treatment plan for breast cancer. With BCS, only the part of the breast that has cancer is removed.
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Mastectomy
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Surgery
A mastectomy is surgery to remove a breast. It is part of treatment for breast cancer. Here's what you need to know about this procedure.
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Breast Cancer: Breast Reconstruction After Breast Surgery
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Breast reconstruction surgery involves creating a breast mound that comes as close as possible to the form and appearance of the natural breast.
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Breast Cancer: Lymphedema After Treatment
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Whenever the normal drainage pattern in the lymph nodes is disturbed or damaged - often during surgery to remove the lymph nodes - the arm may swell. This swelling, caused by too much fluid, is called lymphedema.
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Hormone Therapy
For some types of breast cancer, hormones, such as estrogen and progesterone, can also cause breast cancer cells to grow. In these cases, hormone therapy is used to help prevent the growth, spread, and recurrence of breast cancer.
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Other Treatments
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Breast Cancer: Hormone Therapy
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For some types of breast cancer, hormones, such as estrogen and progesterone, can also cause breast cancer cells to grow. In these cases, hormone therapy is used to help prevent the growth, spread, and recurrence of breast cancer.
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Breast Cancer: Targeted Therapy
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Other Treatments
Targeted therapy is the use of medicines that target parts of cancer cells that make them unlike normal cells. They do this without affecting most normal, healthy cells.
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Clinical trials are studies managed by government agencies, educational institutions, private not-for-profit organizations, or commercial businesses. They develop and evaluate the effectiveness of new treatments and therapies for diseases.
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Breast cancer can make you feel as though your body has failed you. But research shows that exercise can help you regain some control over your body and your life.
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Osteoporosis in Women with Cancer
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If you have osteoporosis, your bones become porous and weak. As they lose strength, they are more likely to break. People with osteoporosis are particularly at risk for breaking these bones.
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Sexuality Issues for Women Being Treated for Cancer
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Treatment for cancer can cause many changes that may affect your sexuality. It can also change the physical or emotional closeness you share with another person. Different treatments can cause different physical and psychological changes that can affect how you feel, look, and function. These changes may be temporary, or they may last a long time.
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