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Chemotherapy drugs are "cytotoxic" (cell-killing) drugs. They are given orally or by injection. They work systemically by killing cancer cells throughout the body. (Unfortunately, they also kill some normal cells, which accounts for many of their side effects.) Chemotherapy is always used for advanced breast cancer, but may also be used to treat types of early-stage breast cancer.
Newer biologic drugs target specific proteins involved in cancer. Treatment with these drugs is called...
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Breast Cancer and Hormone Therapy
The facts and the fiction...there are a lot of both. I, for one, am ready for the media to stop replaying various takes on the Women's... Read more »
Complementary and Alternative Therapies (CAM) and Breast Cancer: Your...
When you think about using Reiki, traditional Chinese medicine, or dietary supplements to treat breast cancer, do you feel yourself start... Read more »
Breast Cancer and Hormone Replacement Therapy
Many women who took a combination hormone replacement therapy drug—estrogen and progestin, e.g., Prempro, et. al.—ceased their... Read more »
Herceptin Immune Targeted Therapy for Breast Cancer
Q. I’ve been diagnosed with HER2-positive stage II breast cancer, and after surgery will be doing chemo (AC + T). After that’s done, my... Read more »
Hormone Replacement Therapy and Breast Cancer Incidence
Dr. Ravdin et al published a very impressive article in this week's New England Journal of Medicine on hormone replacement therapy (HRT)... Read more »
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Menopause and Breast Cancer Therapy
Source: Breastcancer.org
Certain chemotherapies can force the ovaries into retirement within a few months of treatment: This is medical menopause. Fifty percent of women... Read more »
After Surgery for Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Radiation Therap...
Source: Breastcancer.org
After mastectomy, you likely will have radiation therapy, which targets any cancer cells that may be left behind in the area. The timing and dose of... Read more »
Breast Cancer & Menopause Hormone Therapy Comment
The big story about breast cancer on the front page of the New York times is compelling, but it does not apply to everyone. I was 48 when my cancer... Read more »
Before Surgery for Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Chemotherapy an...
Source: Breastcancer.org
Many studies have shown that giving chemotherapy — and possibly targeted therapy — before surgery for inflammatory breast cancer is better than... Read more »
Radiation Therapy for Male Breast Cancer
Source: Breastcancer.org
Radiation therapy is a highly targeted, highly effective way to destroy cancer cells that may linger after surgery. This reduces the risk of... Read more »
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