Breast Cancer Chemotherapy

Cancer cells can form and are not qualified nor controllable. Chemotherapy is a therapy that is used to stop the growth of breast cancer cells in a way that control it. However, chemotherapy can harm healthy cells in the body and can also cause side effects.

For the treatment of chemotherapy, patients may not feel the side effects but this is rare. The effect of the chemotherapy depending on the type and dose received by the patient. Generally the effects experienced by patients in whom i.e. nausea, vomiting, pain and hair loss. Healthy cells can grow back after chemotherapy is completed.

The chemotherapy will be tempered by patient depending on the type of cancer, the drug must be given, the goals of treatment, and the response of the body against treatment. It is possible that patients have to do chemo every day, every week or every month, the time traveled depending on the needs for treatment. However, the patient can stop chemotherapy if the body is in fact healthy cells to form new ones.

How to do breast cancer chemotherapy?

Therapeutic adjuvants is a therapy that is given to the patient if not the discovery of cancer after surgery. Surgery is done to remove the visible cancer while adjuvan therapy given to kill the cancer cells had already spread in the body but his cell cannot be seen. If the cells are not visible continues to grow then these cells can form new tumors in other parts of the body.

Adjuvan therapy given after breast conservation surgery or mastectomy is useful for reducing the risk of breast cancer to come back. Radiation, chemo, therapy-targeted, and hormone therapy is also used in the treatment of adjuvan.

Treatment before surgery or neo-adjuvan therapy is a therapy that is similar to the adjuvan therapy. Basically there is no difference between doing chemotherapy after or before the operation because the cancer can survive and keep growing in the body. However, there are some advantages of neo-adjuvants i.e. chemotherapy is capable of discouraging the size of the tumor so that the parts of the body that will be dissected little pun. Neo-adjuvan is often used to treat cancer and the surgical removal of the cancer. The doctor may also look at the condition of cancer if chemo is done first before surgical removal. If the drug is not able to shrink the size of the tumor, usually a doctor will know other medications that can be used by the patient.

For the advanced stage breast cancer, chemo can also be used as a treatment for women that his cancer condition already spread outside the breast and armpit area. The length of treatment for advanced stage cancer depends on how big the cancer can shrink and how great a consideration for patients undergoing treatment.

The purpose of the use of drugs in chemotherapy helpful to undermine and destroy cancer cells in the body including a network of cancer cells that may have spread to other parts of the body. Chemotherapy is often abbreviated with the chemo is a system of treatment or therapy that can affect the entire body through the bloodstream.

There are several different types of chemotherapy drugs used for the treatment of cancer. Usually chemotherapy drugs is a combination of two or more types of drugs.

Chemotherapy is used to treat:

• Early stage breast cancer. At this stage of chemotherapy is useful to eliminate cancer cells left behind after surgery and also reduce the risk of cancer coming back
• The advanced stage of breast cancer is useful to destroy as many cancer cells in the body of the patient.

Will chemotherapy given before surgery so that the size of the cancer can shrink or shrinks.