How should advanced breast cancer be treated

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In recent days, a colleague of the company often asked for leave for no reason. Later, she was asked to know that it was because her chest was often uncomfortable. After going to the hospital for examination, she suffered from breast cancer. She was very worried about what effect the treatment could achieve. Now let's learn how to treat advanced breast cancer.

How should advanced breast cancer be treated

First: Patients with advanced breast cancer, but please do not lose heart, patients with bone metastasis, it is necessary to carry out anti bone metastasis treatment, can use pamidronate or zoledronic acid treatment. In addition, to review the chest wall, to see if it is recurrence, and arm edema, need to see if there is thrombosis. It is recommended that patients go to the hospital to improve the examination, such as chest CT, brain CT, neck CT, ect At present, in order to prolong the life of patients, chemotherapy and symptomatic treatment are still needed.

Second, the 5-year cure rate of stage I breast cancer is more than 90% - 95%, the cure rate of stage II breast cancer is 70% - 80%, the cure rate of stage III breast cancer is about 50% - 60%, and the cure rate of stage IV breast cancer is less than 10%. Therefore, the earlier the stage, the better. We should make early diagnosis and early treatment. The cure rate of early breast cancer is higher than that of late breast cancer. It is generally believed that the cure rate of primary breast cancer is usually expressed as 5-or 10-year survival, because the probability of recurrence within 5 years is relatively high.

Third: in general, cancer patients will suffer from severe pain at the tumor site in the advanced stage, which is also the reason leading to the end of life of cancer patients, because the great pain will destroy people's will, make people unable to live a normal life, and the mood is also extremely bad. The insufficient intake of dietary nutrition and emotional discomfort will reduce the body's immunity, which will lead to the rapid development of cancer cells Therefore, our current treatment should focus on relieving the pain symptoms of patients and improving the quality of life.

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Breast cancer is a very terrible condition, but it does not mean that there is no hope of cure. As a patient, we should always be full of hope and do not give up on our own treatment, which is conducive to the treatment to achieve more ideal therapeutic effect.