Women Cancer Health Treatment

Many different ways for breast cancer treatment as usually doctors will use two or more types of breast cancer treatment together. Here is some major options for breast cancer :

Chemotherapy
It’s often called “chemo,” by using drugs, this therapy will kill new tumor cells or shrink lymph nodes that contain cancer cells. You may have surgery to remove the rest of the cancer once the tumor is smaller. Some forms of cancer can be completely cured with drugs alone.
Many different chemotherapy medicines are available like pill as a shot, or in an IV. Some frequent blood tests might be needed to determine how the body is doing and how much hemotherapy needed. The drugs can produce many side effects, and may leave you susceptible to infection for a while.

Hormone Therapy
Estrogen as one of human natural hormones, sometimes promote the growth of cancer cells. And to block the estrogen and slow the cancerous growth, we need special drugs to take by mouth.
It may also be necessary to surgically remove sources of estrogen such as adrenal glands or the ovaries in some cases.

Radiation
By using x-rays or gamma rays, it can kill cancer and help to prevent it from spreading. Those rays can also be effective to shrinking cancerous tumors, controlling bleeding and reduce pain. This kind of therapy also used by doctors on cancerous lymph nodes.
Radiation and chemotherapy are often used together and to kill any cancer cells that may have been missed after surgery.

Bone Marrow Transplant
On this kind of therapy, damaged or diseased bone marrow is replaced with healthy marrow usually from a donor. The transplant is given in the hospital through an IV.
Although the treatment can cure cancer, it may lead to other very serious health problems, including severe infections and after the procedure, you may have to stay in the hospital for a month.

Surgery
Depends on the breast cancer stage, you may need surgery to remove the lump, the entire breast or a part of the breast. To help prevent the cancer from spreading to other parts of your body, it might also need to have some lymph nodes taken out from the body.

Contributed to Women Health Network