Your team of doctors will make treatment recommendations based on the stage of your cancer. Your standard treatment options may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and hormone therapy. If you have been diagnosed with DCIS or LCIS, your stage is the lowest and the road you will travel will be easier. For DCIS, your options may [...]
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Breast Cancer Treatment: Conventional Treatment Methods
January 25th, 2011 
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January 22nd, 2011 admin Breast cancer can be treated with a mastectomy or breast preservation surgery, lumpectomy, followed by radiation and sometimes chemotherapy. These are the best ways to prevent reoccurrence of cancer. The most common place for cancer to come back is in the same area where it was found the first time.The determination of which treatment is [...]
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January 10th, 2011 admin It was not so long ago that a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer faced a very limited range of treatment programs. That is no longer the case. Today there are many treatment possibilities and often a patient will have treatment from a number of programs. Many courses of treatment have proved to be [...]
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