Breast+Cancer+Treatments

__Treatments__ -Recently, there's been numerous amounts of life-saving treatment advances to help breast cancer victims, bringing new hope and excitement. Today there's a fairly large menu of treatment choices that fight the complex mix of cells in cancers. Some decisions are surgery, then perhaps radiation, hormonal (anti-estrogen) therapy, and/or chemotherapy.

__Surgery__ - -Surgery is usually the first option/treatment against breast cancer. The surgery you choose mostly depends on the factors of the cancer at hand. -The first type of surgery available is lumpectomy. The best advantage that a patient can get from this, is that it can preserve muc of the appearance and sensation of the breast. This surgery is less invasive, so recovery time is much shorter and easier than the other surgery option, __ mastectomy __. -The next type of surgery available is ma​stectomy. This surgery removes the entire breast, which provides greater peace of mind for some women. One disadvantage it that radiation therapy may still be needed, depending on the result of the pathology. ​ __ Chemotherapy __ - -The treatment of chemotherapy uses medicine to weaken and destroy cancer cells in the body. This includes cells at the original site of the cancer as well as any other cancer cells that may have spread throughout the body. With so many chemotherapy medicines, a combination of two or more medicines will be used as a chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. Other tihings that chemotherapy is used to treat includes: > In some cases, chemotherapy is given before surgery to shrink the cancer" __Radiation Therapy__ - -Radiation therapy (Radiotherapy) is a highly targetedand effective way to destroy cancer cells in the breast that may not have been killed during surgery. This treatment can decrease the risk of breast cancer happening by about 70%. Even though many people are turned off by fear, radiation therapy is fairly easy to tolerate and its side effects stay within to the treated area. __Figure3__ :
 * "early-stage invasive breast cancer to get rid of any cancer cells that may be left behind after surgery and to reduce the risk of the cancer coming back"
 * "advanced-stage breast cancer to destroy or damage the cancer cells as much as possible