But surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation – while key parts of treatment – can take a toll on your physical andmental healthboth just after the treatment as well as months or years later. Tiredness It's a common symptom of breast cancer and a side effect of its treatment. Your doctor mi...
Surgery (lumpectomy, mastectomy, etc.) Breast cancer prevention is achieved by maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle to include a proper diet, moderate exercise, and avoiding known carcinogens such as tobacco and excess radiation. If you have a family history of breast cancer, consider being te...
Surgeries likelumpectomy,mastectomy, lymph node removal, andbreast reconstruction Radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors Chemotherapy drugs to attack cancer cells Hormonetherapies to stop tumors from growing Targeted therapiesthat go after cancer cells with less impact on healthy cells than chem...
Just like before, when I went in for the second lumpectomy there was never a doubt for one second that they wouldn’t be able to get all of the cancer out. After all, how much more could there possible be? The thing is, apparently it’s often rather difficult for a surgeon to iden...
After her diagnosis, Peled committed to running her way through radiation treatments, even on the days she felt fatigued. But as she soon learned, the fatigue wasn’t her biggest obstacle to running—her bra was. “Normal sports bras aren’t made for women who’ve had really any kind of...
After two years of chemo, then brain surgery, brain radiation, gamma knife, then more chemo, she reached out to me on facebook to ask my advice. We messaged back and forth periodically over the next two years. Several times in her messages she told me that the thought of doing more ch...
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