How to treat breast cancer in the middle stage

The main treatment for patients with mid-stage breast cancer is surgical resection. If the tumor is large or the patient wishes to preserve the breast, adjuvant chemotherapy can be performed first and then surgery. After surgery, follow-up anti-tumor treatment can be performed according to the patient's pathological classification. It is recommended to go to a breast specialist for a complete examination as soon as possible, and then provide symptomatic supportive treatment after the cause is determined. After that, a review every six months is sufficient. Mid-stage breast cancer may be cured.

What is radiotherapy for breast cancer?

After chemotherapy for locally advanced breast cancer, there is still a local recurrence, so we need to do radiotherapy. The concept of radiotherapy is that after we use X-rays to burn the local area, we will kill the local residue that may not be completely removed during surgery. In this way, the treatment effect is better. So we simply understand that chemotherapy is systemic treatment and radiotherapy is local treatment. Radiotherapy for breast cancer is the use of rays to treat the local tumor. It is a means of local treatment and is often used in the treatment of postoperative breast cancer or recurrent and metastatic breast cancer. After radiotherapy for breast cancer, patients need to pay attention to skin care in the irradiation field, reexamination of medication, and side effects of radiotherapy.

What are the early symptoms of breast cancer?

Breast cancer is an early symptom of common breast malignancies, usually manifested as a relatively small painless mass in the breast. The early symptoms of breast cancer are atypical, usually manifested as a painless breast mass, which is more common in the upper outer quadrant of the breast and is mostly unilateral. Breast cancer patients undergo surgical treatment. Although surgery can remove cancer lesions visible to the naked eye, there is still a great risk of recurrence after surgery. Only by promptly cleaning up the residual cancer cells after surgery can the risk of postoperative recurrence be effectively reduced.