Is advanced breast cancer easy to treat

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I am an early-stage breast cancer patient, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have been completed, breast resection has been completed for two years, now every three months to review, every day to take medicine. After treatment, it has basically recovered. Now I would like to share with you the question of whether advanced breast cancer is easy to treat.

Is advanced breast cancer easy to treat

Treatment 1: endocrine therapy. The endocrine therapy of breast cancer mainly includes estrogen antagonists (tamoxifen) and aromatase inhibitors (now commonly used are the third generation aromatase inhibitors, such as letrozole, anastrozole and exemestane). Tamoxifen can be used in premenopausal and postmenopausal women, and aromatase inhibitors are more effective in postmenopausal women. In addition, there are drugs that can replace surgery and radiotherapy, such as noread, used in premenopausal (including perimenopausal) patients or combined with tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors.

Treatment 2: molecular targeted therapy, human can develop new drugs for different targets at the molecular level. The targeted drugs for the treatment of breast cancer are HER-2 receptor family drugs (trastuzumab / Herceptin, lapatinib), angiogenesis inhibitors (bevacizumab / Avastin) have been used in clinical practice, and other targeted drugs such as Ras family, farnesyltransferase inhibitors, ubiquitin protease pathway and so on. Trastuzumab is the first molecular targeted drug in the field of breast cancer treatment, and its indication is HER-2 positive patients.

Treatment 3: surgical treatment: early, middle and advanced breast cancer patients, as long as the body can tolerate surgery, should be the first choice of surgical treatment. There are many surgical treatments for breast cancer. No matter what type of operation is chosen, we must strictly grasp the principle of radical treatment as the main treatment, while preserving the function and appearance as the secondary treatment.

matters needing attention

Women often neglect their health because of the pressure of work and family. For women, because of this reason, the possibility of breast cancer is increased. Experts say that breast cancer is one of the tumor diseases, which poses a great threat to health.