What to do if breast cancer recurs

The treatment of breast cancer recurrence is mainly medical treatment, which mainly includes radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy and targeted therapy. After recurrence, the doctor will determine the treatment plan based on the patient's location of recurrence and metastasis, age, severity, molecular classification, gene expression, etc.

What is breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer?

Breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer is a better surgical method. This surgery can remove breast tumor tissue as much as possible, actively ensure that the cut tumor cells are negative and not infiltrated by tumor cells, so as to preserve the patient's breast as much as possible. Now, breast conservation surgery is relatively mature in my country and the world.

How long can you live with breast cancer bone metastasis?

Bone metastasis of breast cancer is a common phenomenon. Bone metastasis will definitely affect the patient's life span, but the impact is lower than visceral metastasis such as lung metastasis, liver metastasis, and brain metastasis. At present, there are many treatments for bone metastasis of breast cancer. After effective and reasonable treatment, patients can survive for a long time.

Can breast cancer metastasize?

Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the mammary epithelium. Malignant tumors can metastasize. The metastasis of breast cancer includes direct invasion, lymph node metastasis, blood type metastasis, and implantation metastasis. Implantation metastasis is the most common. For example, during surgery, tumor cells fall off the tumor and stick to the surgical wound, which is implantation metastasis. Therefore, breast cancer can metastasize, which is very common.