Treatment of breast cancer

There are many treatment methods and measures for breast cancer, including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, endocrine therapy and so on. At present, comprehensive treatment based on surgery is widely used.

1. Surgical treatment: Radical mastectomy has a history of 100 years, and it is still the main treatment method for breast cancer, with the most satisfactory curative effect for early breast cancer without axillary lymph node metastasis.

2. Radiotherapy: usually used after surgery to prevent local recurrence. Radiotherapy for advanced breast cancer can shrink the tumor, and some even can transfer breast cancer that is not suitable for surgery to operable resection. It has a certain palliative effect on isolated local recurrence and bone metastasis of breast cancer. However, for patients with early breast cancer without lymphatic metastasis, conventional radiotherapy is not necessary to avoid damaging human immune function.

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Chemotherapy: Chemotherapy is a necessary systemic adjuvant therapy (cyclophosphamide, lomustine, chlorambucil).

4. Traditional Chinese medicine with adjuvant therapy can improve the success rate of surgery, reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and improve the therapeutic effect. Ginsenoside Rh2 and other traditional Chinese medicines can inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells, induce apoptosis and differentiation, accelerate postoperative recovery, reduce complications, reduce side effects, improve therapeutic effect and prevent recurrence and metastasis.

5. Endocrine therapy: For primary advanced breast cancer that is not suitable for surgery or radiotherapy, estrogen receptor positive patients can receive endocrine therapy alone or in combination. The drugs and methods used vary according to menstrual conditions.

How to treat breast cancer, the main treatment method is above, and the current treatment is mainly combined treatment. The effect of single therapy is not as good as that of combined therapy.