BREAST CANCER BASE

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.

Research found that the use of estrogen and progesterone hormone replacement therapy for a breast cancer can increase the incidence of breast cancer twice.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, scientists above the age of 50 at least 537 patients with breast cancer were studied, their sick time in 1988-1990. Then they did not have the same 492 female breast cancer were compared. Scientists found that combination therapy for at least 6 months (average 4 years) with the incidence of lobular breast cancer is another group of patients was 2.6 times more.

Why did the president of Breast Cancer? So far, the main reason for its formation are just some of the medical statistics estimate of the proposal.

Breast cancer stages, classification, and also because the case will be different factors, the treatment will vary a lot, rather than size-fits-all treatment.

A simple example is : in the age group categories, there have stopped before and after the different treatment modalities, when breast cancer was diagnosed, the medical disposal, the first consideration is surgery, if found early, completely resected lesion site of the higher success rate.

Hormone replacement therapy is developed in recent years, in the field of gynecology and obstetrics increasingly extensive application of a method of treatment. Its mechanism is the lack of women in the estrogen or estrogen in vivo to reduce the time given due hormone supplement, the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, to adjust the body endocrine imbalance caused by the symptoms.

But for some in excess of estrogen causes of diseases such as breast cancer, may also use hormone replacement therapy? Many of the view that breast cancer patients should be careful in using hormone replacement therapy.