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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October 13th, 2007 | Posted in breast cancer Knowledge Base | No Comments
Breast cancer surgery made all the preparations for major surgery routine check of patients with heart, liver, lung, kidney and other organ functions. The simultaneous with other serious diseases, preoperative to-one for medical treatment, in order to increase the function of the major organs of the reserves. If the merger with cardiovascular disease patients, intraoperative and postoperative possible heart failure or arrhythmias, so they are active before surgery to control complications, surgery to avoid accidents. More serious illness, care should be heart.
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According to the "Daily Mail" reported on the 11th, the University of Leicester, United Kingdom researchers recently discovered through research, cabbage (cabbage) and MILLER peas (sprouts), the two green vegetables may become the latest anti-breast cancer weapons. Research shows, cabbage and peas contain Miao looks can kill a cancer cell compound I3C, particularly in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy at the same time to eat more vegetables efficacy of the two better.
Prior research has hinted that the two vegetables prevent cancer, but this study was the first for them in the course of breast cancer treatment What is the role of research.
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October 12th, 2007 | Posted in breast cancer Knowledge Base | No Comments
Women from pregnancy, childbirth to breastfeeding, the body hormones will be major changes, early pregnancy plasma and the estrogen secretion of adrenal cortical hormones will be significantly increased, these mid-pregnancy hormone levels drop, will be up late; Breastfeeding prolactin levels will be increased significantly. While estrogen, prolactin and changes in the incidence of breast cancer is closely related. Thus, in the past that pregnancy lactating breast cancer, the condition develops quickly, and the prognosis is poor. Now advocates of breast cancer patients after treatment better not to pregnancy and lactation.
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