breast cancer treatment guidelines for patients

There are different types of treatment that can be performed in patients with breast cancer. Some of treatment is the standard treatment that widely used now, and there are some treatments that are still in the stage of clinical trials. The clinical trial treatment intended to improve existing treatments or obtain information for new treatments for cancer patients.

If the new treatment is apparently better than the standard treatment, the new treatment can be used as a standard treatment in patients with cancer.

Some patients may want to participate in this clinical trial treatment, but the clinical trial treatment should only be done for patients who have not been treated.


Some kinds of standard treatment are used:

Surgery

Treatment with surgery to remove the cancer from the breast more often done by patients with breast cancer. In this surgery usually performed taking lymph nodes under the arm to see if they also contain cancer cells.
Breast-conserving surgery is surgery to remove the cancer but not the breast, including:

Lumpectomy: is surgery to remove the lump and a small portion of normal tissue in the surrounding areas.
Partial mastectomy: is surgery to remove the affected breast cancer and normal tissue in part. Top layer of pectoral muscle under the cancer can also be lifted. This operation is usually called a mastectomy segmental.

Patients were operated on with breast-conserving surgery may also have some lymph nodes that should be removed for biopsy. This action is also called lymph node dissection. This action can be performed in conjunction with breast-conserving surgery or can also be done afterwards. To act lymph node dissection is usually done by creating a separate incision.

 Another type of operation is:
- Total mastectomy
- Modified radical mastectomy

Before surgery to remove the tumor, chemotherapy is usually given.
The amount of tissue that needs to be remove will reduce and  the tumor will shrink if chemotherapy given before surgery. This is called adjuvant therapy or before surgery treatment.

At the time doctors operated on cancer, cancer cells that are seen must be lifted, but it also needs to be given radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy to purge cancer cells remaining.

To reduce the risk of cancer coming back, it would require treatment after surgery and is called adjuvant therapy.

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