Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Treatment for breast cancer

Some treatments for breast cancer are:

Surgery: where parts or all of the tumor is removed, there are 2 types breast consereving surgery or mastectnomy

Radiation therapy: aiming a bead of radiation at the tumor, external radiation is always given after breast conserving surgery,

Chemotherapy: chemo drugs interfere with the ability for the cancer cells to spread and grow, but they also damage healthy cells

Hormone therapy: a treatment to remove hormones from your body or blocks the actions and stops cells from growing

Biological therapy: the use of drugs to interfer e how breast cancer cells grow and uses the body's immune systems to destroy it

Keep in mind, these cures do not always work......

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