Breast Cancer Treatment
The main treatment for breast cancer is surgery. In most cases, conservative surgery is
used, which preserves the shape and appearance of the breast. For early breast cancer, only
the pieces and a small area of surrounding tissue is removed. For breast cancer at a later
much tissue removed, but it is replaced by the muscle to reconstruct the breast. Because
breast cancer cells first lymph nodes in the armpit, the surgeon will usually cut into it to
check any further spread.
Surgery may be followed by a short course of radiotherapy or chemotherapy, depending on
the type of the tumor and how it progressed. In most cases, the patient receives a long
duration of hormone therapy (tamoxifen, for instance) that reduces the risk of recurrence of
disease.
The treatment of breast cancer is improving the last twenty years. In the early 1970s,
only half of women diagnosed with the disease survived for five years. Well, survive more
than three quarters of this long and most of them live much longer.
