Breast Cancer Therapies
Cancer therapy is one of methods to cure cancer disease. The principles of breast cancer therapies are actually two, local therapy (surgery, Radiotherapy) and systematic therapy (chemotherapy, targeted therapy).
Therapies that are currently developed are: Trans Arterial Chemotherapy Infusion (TACI) is the provision of anti-cancer drugs through the artery vessel, which is directly targeted to tumor blood vessels. Cryoablation is one type of therapy uses the local extreme cold temperature (-40 ยบ C) to destroy cancer cells, radiofrequency ablation method is to use flow back and forth through the high-frequency electrode. With high frequency currents flowed through the needle, which will infuriate the network of cells and cancer destroy it, and photodynamic therapy Photo sensitizer is activated by light waves, is a toxic reaction in cancer cells that cause cancer cells to die. All those are local therapy.
Please note that the local breast cancer therapies will be done when doctor standard therapy for cancer is done. So, this therapy is the last option because not all agreed by the FDA and the other world health organization. But generally it has been done, both in United States and Europe.
The breast cancer therapies, as alternative to:
1. Reduce the risk of surgery, especially for patients that surgery is not possible because of old age or physically weakness.
2. The cancer is solid tumors, cancer, generally in the liver, kidney, lungs, breast cancer is now usual.
3. In the advanced level of the patients (end of the stadium), to reduce pain due to insistence tumors and pain in the bones due to metastases cancer-specific cancer to the bones.
4. To shrink the size of the tumor, so easily operated (as the neo adjuvant)
5. The advantages, it can be repeated and can be done simultaneously with the standard therapy(surgery or chemo).
6. In TACI / E objective lessen the likelihood of complications due to systemic doses of cancer drugs.
So the purpose of breast cancer therapies is: healing (for the early stadium cancer, aims to heal), palliative (for highest stadium cancer, the objective to improve the quality of life for patients, to reduce the pain).
Beside therapy above, It is also important to consider nutrition and herbal therapy for cancer to fasten healing.
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