Is breast cancer stage 1 chemotherapy useful

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Aunt is a stage 1 breast cancer patients, recently feel obvious discomfort, very uncomfortable, go to the hospital review, the doctor said can do chemotherapy, do not know if chemotherapy is useful, let me talk about breast cancer stage 1 chemotherapy useful.

Is breast cancer stage 1 chemotherapy useful

First: early breast cancer patients, surgery is the first choice, the effect of surgery is the best. Chemotherapy can be used as an adjuvant therapy after surgery. But how the effect is, whether chemotherapy is really needed after the operation, which should be judged by the doctor according to the patient's situation.

Second: the best treatment for early breast cancer is surgery. However, if the patient is old, weak and unable to bear the damage of surgery, it is suggested that the patient should take conservative treatment of traditional Chinese medicine to prolong the life of the patient.

Third: chemotherapy can be used as an adjuvant treatment after surgery. But how the effect is, whether chemotherapy is really needed after the operation, which should be judged by the doctor according to the patient's situation. General breast cancer patients according to pathology, immunohistochemistry, will line chemotherapy, because there are residues, if not chemotherapy, through the blood circulation caused by lymph node metastasis, recurrence rate is very high, but the specific situation depends on the specific condition.

matters needing attention

Breast cancer is clinically divided into different periods, generally speaking, stage 1 is still early breast cancer, at this time the best treatment is surgery, but postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy, so chemotherapy for breast cancer stage 1 is also effective.