BREAST CANCER BASE

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In the treatment of breast cancer, in addition to surgery, radiation, anti-cancer drugs and herbs, there is a hormonal therapy, according to the international medical data company IMS statistical services, endocrine drugs in China tumor drug market share of only 4%, 6 times for the United States, 11.5 times as much as the European market, even with the incidence of tumors similar to Japan about 12%. This shows that China's treatment of endocrine and lags far behind the developed countries. So, what is endocrine therapy for a medical treatment?

307 Military Medical Academy Hospital, director of breast medical doctor Professor Song three Thai said:
Since breast cancer is estrogen secreted by the body caused by too exuberant, endocrine therapy should start with two points: the abolition sources. The specific practices are the following:

One, for ovarian;
2 with anti-estrogen;
3 with progesterone;
4, cut androgen into estrogen process.

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Cross-resistance between endocrine drugs less, especially progesterone preparation more of appetite, improve the functional status of patients with chemotherapy can be difficult given to endocrine therapy.

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