Stage 2 Breast Cancer Treatment

You was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer by doctors? Don't stress and thinking that is not used to be like death. You experience this condition can still be overcome with proper medical handling.

You are said to have breast cancer when cells in the breast area suffered damage but continue to divide ourselves produce abnormal cells, to form a tumor. Determination of the stadium is determined by how badly the spread of cancer cells and the size of the tumor in the breast.

If you've come to the stage 2, it means that the cancer cells have been developed, but has not spread to the rest of the body. These cells exist only in new breast or spread in lymph nodes near the breast. Stage 2 breast cancer is divided into 2 IE stadium 2A and 2B

stage 2 cancer survival rates

On stage 2 breast cancer, cancer cells already growing and increasingly growing into a big one. At this stage of this second stage must be immediately treated. If at this stage of the stadium two not immediately treated, cancer cells then this will increasingly develop into a cancer stage 3. The possibility of recovering breast cancer at stage 2 of about 30% to 40%. To be able to treat cancer disease stage 2, then we have to recognize the first signs of breast cancer stage 2.

At this stage, the cancer cells can infect the lymph nodes in the armpit area. At this stage of breast cancer is 2, out the liquid from the nipple can also be greenish colored pus or suddenly. Further cuts will show up in the area around the breast and armpit that fails to recover, accompanied by pain.

Treatment of breast cancer stage 3

Almost every type of cancer treatment is carried out by the same method, it just depends on the severity of the patient. Stage 2 breast cancer treatment is not much different from but with some extra medical action. Some of those ways are:

Surgery

medical action was carried out to remove the cancer cells in the breast or eliminate breast, so that cancer cells actually wasted it all.

Radiotherapy

treatment ways which utilizes high energy ray, which is almost the same as x-rays. High energy x-rays can kill cancer cells. Duration of radiotherapy is usually done for 8 minutes depending on the condition of the patient. Radiotherapy is not painless or painful, but it will cause side effects that vary in every patient.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is usually done after the action of the operation, i.e. by inserting the anti-cancer drugs to the patient's body. This is done to prevent cancerous cells reappeared. Chemotherapy also have side effects such as nausea occurred, discoloration of the skin to hair loss.

Lumpektomi

the Act of surgical removal of the tumor or cancer cells, with little of the surrounding breast tissue, but do not lift the breast is exhausted. Healthy breast tissue that was left was later expected to grow new breasts naturally.

Mastectomy

namely the appointment of some or all of the breast, but not to worry. After the appointment of all of the breast, the breast reconstruction can be performed.