Treatment of breast cancer

Treatment of breast cancer


 Guidelines for addressing breast cancer treatment

The main suggestion is clarification. Do not miss out on all your questions. Always write down when they come up and bring them in the consultation so that we can clarify them. When a patient knows what is happening, this can aid their own treatment. In addition, the Hospital has a psychology team to provide patient support.

  Treatment of breast cancer   Treatments for breast cancer are summarized in clinical and surgical. Surgical procedures involve conservative, breast-preserving treatments such as lumpectomy, quadrantectomies, and radicals - known as mastectomies.

  Most breast cancers may "metastasize" to the axilla, so axillary assessment can be done through the axillary lymph node or axillary dissection when the sentinel has neoplastic cells. Nowadays, there is a modality known as oncoplastic, that is, conservative treatments that use plastic surgery techniques for the treatment of breast cancer.  

This results in an oncologically effective treatment and allows a satisfactory aesthetic effect for the patient, even though this treatment allows surgical matching of the contralateral breast. In cases of mastectomies it is important to note that all women have the right breast reconstruction. 

 The clinical treatment involves several types of drugs called chemotherapeutic and hormone therapy, each with its function and side effect. 

 In addition, there is radiotherapy that should be used following surgical treatment, conservative or in specific cases of advanced cancer.  

In general, it is important to say that today, the treatment is very individualized, so each case will be studied in particular and receive a specific treatment. So do not be scared if someone goes through a different treatment than yours. Remember: every case is a case!   What are the stages of breast cancer?

   The stages of breast cancer are ways that doctors give of giving notes to the time of the patient's illness in the case of breast cancer are divided into 5 types:  

Stage 0: when the disease is restricted to where it started (carcinomas in situ) 

 Stage 1: the disease has invaded the local region, but is at most 2cm in size (invasive carcinomas = has a chance of sending cells to other parts of the body)  

Stage 2: the disease has invaded the local region, but is between 2 and 5 cm in size and has little involvement in the axilla (invasive carcinomas)

  Stage 3: the disease has invaded the local region, but is larger than 5cm or very compromised in the axilla (invasive carcinomas)

  Stage 4: When the disease has invaded other parts of the body such as: bones, lungs, liver, etc.