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According to Spain’s “Le Monde” reported that eating fruits and vegetables. Fiber diet can help reduce risk of breast cancer recurrence California Studies staff the relationship between breast cancer and diet long-term study indicated that eating plenty of vegetables. Fruits and fiber type of food to reduce the fat intake, in particular, can help reduce hot flashes in patients without the risk of breast cancer recurrence.

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Breast cancer, endocrine therapy is a selective targeted therapy earliest successful examples of situation from the receptors, estrogen and progesterone receptor-positive patients with the best results. Line endocrine therapy for breast cancer, estrogen receptor (+) and progesterone receptor (+) were effective up to 60%, estrogen receptor (+) and progesterone receptor (-) or estrogen receptor (-) pregnant hormone receptor (+) in an efficient 20-30%, while the estrogen receptor (-) progesterone receptor (-) 5% of those effective left –
Right. Is generally believed that, for estrogen or progesterone receptor-positive patients, regardless of their age. Menstrual status. Oncology small. Lymph node has transferred shall be subject to endocrine therapy.

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Also known as neo-adjuvant chemotherapy of early chemotherapy. Primary chemotherapy, the original used in patients with unresectable breast cancer treatment, but doctors discovered in the course in practice, some of it so that it can not be converted to be a tumor resection surgery, but also make a number of relatively small tumors are breast-conserving opportunities. Now, some of the large breast treatment center has been put into the pre-operative chemotherapy treatment procedures. The medical profession to propose new adjuvant chemotherapy is mainly based on the following reasons:

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“For breast cancer patients than in patients suffering from cancer is a terrible cancer,” “Today, the survival rate of breast cancer has been greatly improved, is the best prognosis tumor. However, even the early breast cancer patients, the risk of recurrence still exists, especially in the postoperative 1 ~ 3 years. Therefore, the doctor will develop adjuvant therapy in patients with programs to further reduce the risk of relapse, and for hormone receptor-positive patients, the surgery after the standard treatment is crucial, adjuvant endocrine therapy process will be as long as five years or longer. ”

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With the people’s level of awareness of the continuous deepening of breast cancer, both doctors and patients choose breast surgery type, from pure pursuit of cure. To avoid the recurrence of the development requirements and quality of life equal emphasis on radical surgery for breast cancer with in-depth understanding of biological characteristics, Surgical treatment of breast cancer point of view a very changed place. Breast-conserving surgery in Western countries has become the mainstream treatment of breast cancer surgery. Choose breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer patients in more than half the total in recent years is increasing every year. China has also carried out by small, mainly because doctors and patients of breast cancer treatment philosophy has not changed, still think that bigger and more thorough surgery the better, is the scourge of breast-conserving therapy. In fact, from the 20th century, since the 70s, people began to gradually narrow the surgery, first to retain the size of chest muscles, and later breast-conserving therapy, after a large number of cases in contrast, found that breast-conserving surgery for patients whose tumors did not increase the proportion of relapse, the same time the maximum extent of the surgery to avoid injury to the human body. As long as the indications for the right choices, breast-conserving surgery and mastectomy can play the same effect.

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Breast cancer metastasis in the rule can not it? Indefinite general, common sites of metastases of breast cancer followed by lung and pleura. Bones. Skin and soft tissues. Liver. Brain. For the different parts of the transfer, its treatment methods and therapeutic effects vary.

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Breast cancer, once developed to a late stage, there will be signs of metastasis occurred late after the transfer, give the treatment more difficult, even life-threatening. To this end, we have to guard against breast cancer, distant metastasis. Specific symptoms as follows:

1. Breast cancer, metastatic liver is one of the common sites of metastases of breast cancer, which often leads to breast cancer treatment failure. About 60% of the patients are not cured of breast cancer metastasis occurs. Liver metastasis mainly through blood and lymph node metastasis and metastasis, of which the main blood metastasis. Hematogenous dissemination of breast cancer in the first rank of the lungs, then bone, the third is the liver.

The clinical manifestations of breast cancer liver metastases and primary liver cancer is very similar to the transfer of the early symptoms, then will gradually appear on the abdomen or the liver area pain discomfort, and abdominal distension. Jaundice. Loss of appetite. Weak. Weight loss . liver pain. fever and so on.

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Where many women’s breasts are large or small lumps, with the high incidence of breast cancer, women were afraid that he was suffering from breast cancer, psychological suspected he was suffering from breast cancer. In fact, experts told a female friend: Your breasts inside the breast lump is also possible that fibroids, they are different:

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Clinically, the expansion of breast cancer usually is divided into breast and the breast to expand outside the expansion of two kinds, the specific analysis is as follows:

(1) to expand the breast: breast cancer, mainly originating from duct epithelial cells, only about 5% from the initial issuance of acinar carcinoma of the limitations of single or multiple lesions, following the then along the breast to expand in the following manner: to continue newborn carcinoma lesions; continuous or jump-style spread along the duct; along the fascial space outreach; invasion of a duct, the first caused by reactive hyperplasia of connective tissue and then to the connective tissue violations; tumor along the acinar and duct around and perineural lymphatic extension.

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More recently, Australian medical researchers found that ginseng and Angelica can induce breast cancer cell growth. Therefore, the Chinese medicine profession in Australia to remind women of two Chinese herbal medicines with caution.

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