breast cancer
Targeted therapy
Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment that works differently to chemotherapy. Chemotherapy attacks all rapidly dividing cells in the body, but targeted therapy works by “targeting” those differences that help a cancer cell to survive and grow. Targeted treatments can be taken orally, injected or given intravenously (through a vein). They may be given…
Treatment of breast cancer
Treatments are less invasive when breast cancer is detected at an early stage. Challenges for breast cancer treatment in Nepal include patient’s financial status (given the huge out-of-pocket expenditure), accessibility and availability of health services and infrastructures, etc. Several modalities of treatment are currently available for breast cancer patients as following: Surgery: Many breast cancer…
Oncotype Dx – Predicts how likely6 cancer comes back or not.
The test gives a score, known as a Recurrence Score, from 0 to 100.
The higher the score, the more likely breast cancer is to come back and the more likely you are to benefit from having chemotherapy as well as hormone therapy.
Your specialist will use the score, along with other information about your breast cancer, to help decide whether chemotherapy would benefit you.5