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Breast Cancer New Drug: Treating Breast Cancer with Traditional Therapy or New Drug
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It is important to find the best way to treat your breast cancer. New drug options, older chemotherapy and radiation options as well as surgical options are all on the table when it comes to breast cancer.
The best treatment for a specific case really depends on the pathology or stage of the cancer.
Surgery
Arguably the best attack against breast cancer, surgery can be a scary and life altering decision. A doctor will take into consideration the stage and aggressiveness of the cancer before making any decisions about surgery.
The two common breast cancer surgeries are a lumpectomy, which removes only the tumor and surrounding tissues, or a mastectomy, which removes all breast tissue.
Traditional Therapy
Chemotherapy and radiation therapy may be used to eliminate cancer cells and/or shrink the size of a tumor before surgery, or after surgery to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer.
New drug therapies can also be used in combination with chemotherapy, and sometimes chemo is used alongside a bone marrow transplant. This is in incredibly aggressive breast cancer forms.
Radiotherapy is also often used after surgery to destroy any lingering cancer cells.
New Drug
There have been developments in drugs for breast cancer. New drug testing for Zometa, a drug manufactured to prevent bone loss in cancer patients who have received hormone therapy, have shown that it may be helpful in reducing breast cancer risk.
Findings published in the New England Journal Of Medicine say that Zometa can reduce not only the risk of breast cancer by almost one third, but prevent early stage breast cancer from advancing and reduce the cancer's spread to the bones and other parts of the body.
Zometa is definitely not standard care for breast cancer and there may not even be clinical trials available to many patients at this point.
In using Zometa, the course of action is an injection once every 3-4 weeks either indefinitely, or until their condition worsens to a point where continued treatment is not an option for the breast cancer. One injection can cost between five and six hundred dollars.
Talk to Your Doctor
It is always incredibly important to consult your physician or oncologist when you are treating breast cancer.
New drug or chemotherapy, finding a treatment that suits your life, has the least risks and gives you the best chance of beating breast cancer is what is most important.
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