You and your doctor will decide what treatment is best for you based on the type of cancer you have, where it is in your body, and how far it has spread, called the stage of your disease. But in general, there are a few types of treatment that work for many different kinds of can...
and few participants knew that having dense breasts increases the risk of developing breast cancer. Dense breasts increase one's risk of breast cancer by one to four times, according to the study; a close family member with breast cancer increases risk by about three times,according...
and their interactions with stromal cells such as fibroblasts and endothelial cells support the survival of cancer cells [57]. Treg cells, which are specifically recruited by chemotactic effect, have been shown to have massive infiltration of a variety of solid tumors in humans...
I am a 30 year breast cancer “survivor” because I survived surgery and chemo…If I had not found a medical doctor in 1986 who helped me get well from the chemo, I would not be living to write this. I saw my father suffer for months from cancer treatment radiation and then dying be...
I am now a stage 3 cancer patient. I had surgery to remove my cancer. Four days later, I was back in ER with high fever and nausea. Prior to the cancer diagnosis, I had gained 60 lbs, and am only 5'2! I weighed 190 lbs. The bloating came and went but the weight never did...
That's when there's not a discrete tumor, but the cancer is diffused throughout the breast. I've had two co-workers who died from that -- and it's pretty rare. It's bad because it is so aggressive, and chemo is a 50-50 shot on treating it. Radiation works for a while, but ...
One other thing younger patients need: better data. Much medical knowledge about the long-term effects of colon cancer treatment, such as the heart damage linked to common chemotherapies, comes from using the drugs in an older patient population. But if people are getting those same treatments ...
According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 62% of breast cancer cases are diagnosed at a localized stage (when the cancer hasn’t spread beyond the breast) and 99% of those people live at least another five years. JGI/Tom Grill//Getty Images Treatment doesn't always involve chemo....
Cancer stage Individual genetics Concerns about side effects While some people with CLL go into complete remission – which means they have normal blood counts and no symptoms of cancer – most eventually relapse. In that case, you may get several treatments over the course of your life with CL...
With my double mastectomy exactly one weekfollowing my stage 1, invasive ductal carcinoma, triple negative, breast cancer diagnosis,I had no time to process, understand, or really come to grips with anything. I just knew I was likely BRCA1 positive (later confirmed by genetic testing), which...