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 profession also rise against a recurrence of breast cancer and advanced breast cancer treatment — endocrine therapy.
However, the Zhongshan University Cancer Hospital director Dr. thoracic surgery, breast chief expert Professor Tim Young who, in a recent press interview, endocrine therapy only to those hormones (estrogen and progestin) receptor-positive patients in the role, and such people in breast cancer patients about 70%. Therefore, not every one of breast cancer patients are required to undergo hormonal therapy.
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