BREAST CANCER BASE

Hormonal therapy for breast cancer In the treatment of breast cancer, in addition to surgery, radiation, anti-cancer drugs and herbs, there is a hormonal therapy, according t...

Drug treatment of endocrine characteristics of Endocrine drugs with easy-to-use, fast in extensive clinical applications, and to replace the endocrine glands (ovary, adrenal and pituitary...

The breast itself is an endocrine organ, the incidence of breast cancer and the body endocrine dysfunction. The endocrine therapy in breast cancer is through endocrine organ removal and endocrine drugs used to treat breast cancer, a method.
Endocrine therapy has the following four characteristics :
(1) Determination of tumor cells in the ER and PR to predict the level of endocrine treatment efficacy.
(2) produce a slower, the general observation should be at least a month. If conditions ease their remission period can be maintained for more than one year.
(3) endocrine therapy of acute drug toxicity and lower long-term toxicity.
(4) As long as endocrine therapy and many other therapy One of the therapies effective for other possibilities of effective therapies are great.
Endocrine therapy in breast cancer treatment as one of the means, mainly apply to pre-menopausal and hormone receptor positive breast cancer patients, and not suitable for surgery or radiotherapy in the treatment of advanced breast cancer patients, and the rapid development of inflammatory breast cancer and breast cancer recurrence or metastasis of milk there adenocarcinoma, particularly estrogen receptor-positive patients, it should consider endocrine therapy. 

Hormonal therapy for breast cancer merits We need to first understand the endocrine therapy is a clear mechanism, blocking estrogen on tumor growth stimulating effect on normal cells...

2006 NCCN guidelines for advanced or recurrent breast cancer endocrine therapy For ER / PR positive only bone / tissue transfer or asymptomatic visceral metastasis in patients with breast cancer, dealing with the follow...

Breast cancer endocrine therapy is not appropriate for everyone For the treatment of breast cancer, in addition to traditional surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy, in recent years the medical profe...

Breast cancer is the cause of what The exact cause of breast cancer has not been determined. Because breast cancer etiology may relate to a variety of factors, it can only sa...

Breast cancer endocrine therapy Breast cancer endocrine therapy, it refers primarily to drug treatment. Endocrine therapy are two ways : One, the use of antagonists to es...

Breast cancer endocrine treatment which? Breast cancer and endocrine (particularly ovarian) is close to endocrine therapy in the disease only palliative effect, but in the conserva...

Breast cancer endocrine therapy option

Application of breast cancer after Femara for endocrine therapy?