Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Treatment

Breast cancer chemotherapy treatment use medicines and drugs to eliminate cancer cells and in most cases treated breast cancer, a group of drugs, and given medication either by mouth or by injection into a vein or muscle, breast cancer chemotherapy treatment reach all parts of the body through the The bloodstream. It is therefore useful in the case of the spread of the disease. Whatever the capabilities of surgical treatment or radiotherapy, the results in situ, where limited usefulness in a specific region of the body, including that there is a chance for the spread of cells from the tumor before it was discovered, so let's be here to give treatment up to all areas of the body hence the benefit of chemotherapy, hormonal , and treatment-oriented major, where they pray to all the cells of the body through the blood.

Breast cancer treated in several ways. And it depends on the type of breast cancer and the extent of its spread. Treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, biological therapy and radiation. Persons who suffer from breast cancer often get more than one type of treatment.

• Surgery: Process in which doctors cut and remove tissue cancer.
• Chemotherapy: The use of special drugs or drugs to shrink or kill cancer. Medicines may be pills taken by intravenous injection, or sometimes both.
• Hormone therapy: Some cancers need certain hormones to grow. Hormone therapy is used to prevent cancer cells from getting the hormones it needs for growth.
• Bioremediation: This therapy works with the immune system for your body to help in the fight against cancer or to control the side effects of other cancer treatments. Side effects is the way in which the body reacts to drugs or other treatments. Biological therapy is different from chemotherapy which attacks cancer cells directly.
• Radiation: The use of high-energy rays (similar to X-rays) to kill cancer cells. Rays are directed to the part of the body where the cancer.

When To get a breast cancer chemotherapy treatment:

• After the operation of the breast to reduce the chance of tumor recurrence again.

• If treatment is given a major spread of the disease in other parts of the body.

• Given before the operation to make the tumor smaller in size therefore easier to remove the tumor while preserving as much as possible of the breast. And also as a test of the extent of tumor response for this type of medication. If the tumor is not getting smaller in size must use another type of medication.

There are many types of drugs that are given as groups for the treatment of cancerous tumors in general and especially breast tumors and treatment usually consists of two drugs or three drugs to be selected from among dozens of drugs currently available. Given chemotherapy in treatment cycles, including periods of rest and the total period of up mostly to six months. Usually enter the patient to take treatment for a period of one day in the clinic dedicated to the hospital and go out to the house on the same day. Given the drugs, either by mouth or by injection into a vein or a muscle and to facilitate the process of intravenous and reduce the possibility of an infection where to put the needle in the vein may want or doctor tells you it is possible to implant port plastic under the skin is injected drugs during and also take blood samples.

cells divide at a very high level, and where the chemotherapy affects all cells that have a high rate of division, including the nature of cells such as skin, hair and bone marrow, so chemotherapy treatment would have some side effects such as:

• hair loss but it would be temporary, as the hair grows back after chemotherapy.
• vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and all these symptoms can be treated much better than before due to provide assistance and medicines that are commonly prescribed during chemotherapy to stop the vomiting and diarrhea
• may accompany chemotherapy disturbances in the menstrual cycle or the occurrence of menopause (PMS) early.
• affected by the bone marrow, which could lead to a decrease in the number of white blood cells and platelets, weakening the body's immunity, and that blood samples are taken periodically and repeatedly has called for the need to adjust dose or change the type of treatment.

In general, the side effects of chemotherapy are temporary and many of them disappear in the after a period of time.