What is Breast-Cancer
Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. Worldwide, it is the most common form of cancer in females, affecting approximately one out of eleven to twelve women at some stage of the...
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Breast Cancer Treatments
| Treatment | Description | Reviewed by | Helps | |
 | Surgery | Surgery is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual... Read Reviews | 240 Members | 97% of the time |
| Chemotherapy | Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day us... Read Reviews | 199 Members | 94% of the time |
| Radiotherapy | Radiotherapy is commonly used for the treatment of malignant tumours (cancer), and ma... Read Reviews | 195 Members | 96% of the time |
| Mastectomy | Mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, parti... Read Reviews | 182 Members | 97% of the time |
| Adriamycin | Doxorubicin or adriamycin or hydroxyldaunorubicin is a DNA-interacting drug widely us... Read Reviews | 110 Members | 97% of the time |
| Arimidex | Aromatase inhibitors (AI) are a class of drugs used in the treatment of breast cancer... Read Reviews | 76 Members | 75% of the time |
| Taxol | Paclitaxel (Taxol®) is a drug used in the treatment of cancer. Paclitaxel has since b... Read Reviews | 75 Members | 85% of the time |
| Reconstructive Surgery | Reconstructive surgery is in its broadest sense the use of surgery to restore the for... Read Reviews | 65 Members | 94% of the time |
| Nolvadex | Tamoxifen is an orally active selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) which is u... Read Reviews | 59 Members | 96% of the time |
| Taxotere | Docetaxel is a clinically well established anti-mitotic chemotherapy medication used ... Read Reviews | 47 Members | 82% of the time |
| Herceptin | Herceptin (trastuzumab) is a humanized monoclonal antibody that acts on the HER2/neu ... Read Reviews | 34 Members | 88% of the time |
| Femara | Femara (letrozole) is an oral non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor that has been introdu... Read Reviews | 24 Members | 89% of the time |
| Cisplatin | Cisplatin or cis-diamminedichloroplatinum is a platinum-based chemotherapy drug used ... Read Reviews | 14 Members | 100% of the time |
| Xeloda | Capecitabine is an orally-administered chemotherapeutic agent used in the treatment o... Read Reviews | 14 Members | 92% of the time |
| Abraxane | Abraxane is a unique formulation of nanoparticle albumin-bound (NAB)paclitaxel. It wa... Read Reviews | 12 Members | 100% of the time |
