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It really important to know breast cancer treatment options if you or your family member was diagnosed with that disease. Breast cancer is said to be quite dangerous and previously, it resulted in numerous demises.

The reason was that, there was no treatment or cure for this disease.

In today’s life with so many advancements been made and so many technologies been introduced, the breast cancer treatment have become advanced and the drugs have become life-saving. These advances and technologies have brought new hope and feeling of recovery in those who have undergone through this disease or lost a dear one or a family or relative is suffering from this disease.

There are many procedures and processes for breast cancer treatment. The physician recommends the treatment according to the type of cancer, location of cancer and the staging.


The breast cancer treatment options should be consulted with an experienced doctor and lots of consideration should be made before picking out one.

There are many treatments of breast cancer. Following are some of them. All these treatment modes differ from each other.

Some Breast cancer treatment options in details

  • Surgery
    many doctors recommend surgery to women suffering from breast cancer. If the cancer is removed, it is quite better as its chances to spread are ruled out with the fact that the tumor, whether malignant or benign has been removed.

    When the lump is removed, the patient is given a dose of drugs in order to kill the cancer cells which exist in body.

  • chemotherapy

    chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer through medicine which helps to kill the cancer cells and wipe them out from the body so the patient have no chance of getting the disease again.

    If the cancer cells are not killed, there is a chance that they form a tumor again and can also travel to other parts. The medicines travel through the blood stream and destroy the cancer cells.

    Sometimes the doctors prefer giving chemotherapy treatment before surgery and sometimes after surgery. If given before surgery, the chemotherapy helps shrink the size of the tumor and also make the cancer cells inactive whereas after surgery, chemo helps kill the remaining cells that have been left out by surgery.

  • Radiation therapy

    this is a procedure of treatment through which the cancer cells are destroyed with high energy rays. This therapy helps reduce the chances of breast cancer recurrence by 70% and its neither too painful nor intolerable. The side effects are only limited to the area where the radiation therapy is given.

  • Hormone therapy
    new breast cancer treatment way.

This is standard breast cancer treatment options, however any from that procedures have own risk factors list.

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