Systemic therapies travel through the bloodstream and affect cells in other body parts. They are used for patients whose cancer has spread to other areas of the body or if there’s a high risk of spread. Sophisticated genetic analysis allows us to target therapies to specific DNA mutations that cause cancer cells to develop and grow.
Systemic therapies include:
Chemotherapy
Clinical trials
Hormone therapy
Immunotherapy
Molecularly targeted therapy
Surgical therapies involve an operation or procedure to remove cancer from the body. Surgery may be the main treatment for some invasive cancers, but it’s only one part of the entire treatment plan.
Surgical therapies include:
Advanced axillary surgery techniques
Aesthetic flat closure mastectomy
Axillary lymph node dissection
Excisional breast biopsy
Excisional breast biopsy using targeted localization techniques
Lumpectomy
Mastectomy with immediate reconstruction
Nipple-sparing mastectomy
Oncoplastic lumpectomy
Risk-reducing mastectomy
Sentinel lymph node mapping and biopsy
Skin-sparing mastectomy
Total mastectomy
Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation from a source like X-rays or photons to kill cancer cells or shrink tumors. Sometimes it’s part of a treatment plan that also includes systemic therapies and/or surgery. Radiation can be used to help ease a patient’s pain or discomfort.
Additional therapies may also be part of your treatment plan.
You’ll be provided with cancer supportive therapies to prevent or relieve symptoms, and to keep you as comfortable as possible throughout the course of your treatment. These may include lymphedema therapy.
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