There are several lines of defense when it comes to treating breast cancer. Chemotherapy is one of them.
Read up this educative article that outlines the oft-used breast cancer treatments. Find out more on chemotherapy, radiation, hormone treatment as well as alternative therapies.
"There are side effects to it, joint aches and hot flashes, but certainly significantly less than chemotherapy," CBS News medical contributor Dr. David Agus, a cancer specialist, said on "CBS This Morning" Monday. "We're getting to be able to personalize treatment now. In the old days we...
Phase III Trial of Chemotherapy With or Without Bevacizumab for First-Line Treatment of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Negative, Locally Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer. JCO 29, 1252-1260(2011).
The topic of trastuzumab therapy without chemotherapy in early breast cancer (EBC) has been repeatedly discussed at international consensus meetings, but is compromised by the lack of solid evidence from clinical studies. An observational study database of patients with EBC receiving trastuzumab-containin...
In this context there is a lack of information regarding the factors influencing oncologists' decision-making in the management of advanced breast cancer. This study aimed to elicit oncologists' views of the goals of palliative chemotherapy and the relative importance assigned to tumour, treatment- ...
12. In breast cancer (BC), particularly the ER-negative subtypes, neoadjuvant chemotherapy is the preferred treatment approach for locally advanced cancers with pathologic complete response (pCR) being the primary endpoint associated with improved prognosis13,14,15,16. The combination of anthracyclines ...
"Women with breast cancer should feel confident about undergoing fertility preservation before starting chemotherapy," Rosen was quoted as saying in a news release. "The data clearly show that it will not delay their treatment, even in the neoadjuvant setting."...
Chemotherapy is a medical treatment that is used to treat cancer using anti-cancer drugs. The drugs administered inhibit mitosis, or cell division of the cancer cells. One of the side affects is often hair loss, because the drugs usually also impact normal, healthy, fast-dividing cells, such...
Objective To compare time to cancer treatment initiation and relative dose intensity (RDI) of neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy among patients with breast cancer with vs without HIV. Design, Setting, and Participants A retrospective, matched cohort study enrolled women who received a diagnos...