The treatment of breast cancer at an early stage often involves more than one approach. Surgery is usually the first step. Most women with breast cancer at an early stage can choose between two surgical treatments.
Breast conserving surgery followed by radiation therapy - Breast-sparing surgery, also called breast conserving surgery include lumpectomy (Luhme-PEK-tuh-MEE) and partial (or segmented), breast (Mon-STEK-tuh-MEE). With a lumpectomy, the tumor and some surrounding normal tissue was removed. partial parallel, part of the breast where the tumor was removed. Women who are breast-sparing surgery is usually the lymph nodes under the arm out. This can occur in breast-sparing surgery or later. Breast-sparing surgery for the breast intact - looking a bit as before surgery.
Mastectomy - Simple (total) in the chest, the surgeon removes the whole breast that has cancer, and possibly some lymph nodes under the arm. When a radical change in parallel, the entire breast, as well as many lymph nodes under the arm, a mountain above the chest muscles and sometimes part of the chest muscles are removed.
The goal of both companies is to remove all breast cancer. The doctor will also want to know if the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes. Axillary lymph node (DGLA), all or part of the lymph nodes under the arm are removed. Sentinel node (SN), a substance that is injected near the tumor that allows the doctor to see which lymph flow of the first substance. This is the sentinel node. It is the first lymph node that cancer could spread. The sentinel node is removed and examined under a microscope. If cancer is not found, the other lymph nodes may be left in place. If cancer is present, more nodes can be removed.
the lymph node status, and test results, allows the doctor to know what other treatment, called adjuvant (AY-juh-vuhnt) treatment may also be prudent. The goal of adjuvant therapy after surgery to kill any cancer cells that may be elsewhere in the body and keep the cancer from recurring.
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