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Nearly 5O years, breast cancer, a serious threat to people’s health. Almost all populations of breast cancer incidence rates are on the rise, with an average annual increase of about l%. Estimated global annual incidence of patients with more than 1 million. While the treatment of breast cancer has made great progress, but there are still 25% of patients die of the disease. The main treatment for breast cancer are surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and endocrine therapy with traditional Chinese medicine, this article is used chemotherapy drugs in recent years, new progress summarized as follows:

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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed to be a correct view of surgery in the treatment of the position, the tumor must be the improvement of survival and life improvement of two to improve to be evaluated, can not simply the pursuit of surgery short-term effect, breast cancer patients evaluate the quality of life will undoubtedly become one of the standards of breast cancer treatment. Therefore, the quality of life after breast cancer surgery to improve to become the main treatment goals, traditional Chinese medicine because of its side effects, like a small and effective mitigation permit has been widely used,

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Reasonable choice for breast cancer treatment, can effectively improve the survival of patients with breast cancer. Breast cancer is occurring from the breast ductal cancer, a common malignancy of women. Every year there are about more than one million women suffer from breast cancer. Men can also develop breast cancer, but male breast cancer than females to be less 100 times. Mainly in the treatment of breast cancer surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Chinese medicine-based, the following on the introduction of breast cancer treatment 11.

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Of breast cancer recurrence is the primary treatment of breast cancer after surgery, cancer subsided, after a period of time to re-grow in the original site of the cancer with the nature of the corresponding. Recurrence of breast cancer are many reasons, among which the most important factor is the inadequate treatment of primary breast cancer, such as surgical excision is not clean, radiotherapy or chemotherapy is not complete, the face of cancer have disappeared, actually remnants of a number of cancer cells.

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The basic principles of breast cancer treatment is the removal of the visible edge of the tumor and surrounding normal tissue, and make sure to reach the safety line around the tumor. The extent of resection depends on each individual, from surgeons and pathologists to the removal of the tumor infiltrating the organization to evaluate the extent and location.

Very small tumors excision is sufficient, the majority of early breast cancer section can be removed only in the larger quadrant tumor resection.

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Surgery is the preferred method of treatment for breast cancer, but surgery is a traumatic treatment, surgery can remove the visible physical nature of mass, patients need to have good physical condition, able to resist post-operative infections, postoperative recovery faster. Surgical treatment options in consultation with the doctor needs to understand the surgical indications and contraindications.

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Breast cancer is the harm women’s health, one of the major malignant tumors in recent years, its incidence was rising. For breast cancer patients and family members of patients who must be a clear misunderstanding following treatment of breast cancer.

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Breast cancer surgery, especially radical surgery on the patient’s physical and mental is a heavy blow, so preoperative diagnosis is breast cancer surgery is an important principle. Diagnosis of breast cancer many ways, including physical examination, breast X-ray, B-chao, breast duct endoscopy, etc., but the final diagnosis is still dependent on pathological diagnosis.

Biopsy (the biopsy) is to obtain preoperative pathological diagnosis of the most commonly used means, which includes needle biopsy and surgical biopsy in two ways.

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Stage is to define the extent of cancer spread method. Stage is very important, it is because you are an overview of the rehabilitation and treatment may depend on your stage of cancer. For example, a period of cancer may be the best surgical treatment, while others the best combined use of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, breast cancer is also true. Breast cancer treatment and prognosis depends largely on the cancer stage and cell type, only to accurately determine the stages in order to take appropriate treatment measures. CT, MRI, scan, bone marrow biopsy, mediastinoscopy, and Blood screening for breast cancer staging.

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Breast cancer in Chinese medicine has long been documented in ancient literature, and were known as “milk-core”, “stone carbuncle”, “breast lump in the abdomen,” “Pomegranate flowers turn,” etc., the modern Chinese name is more consistent, “Ruyan . ” Chinese medicine treatment of breast cancer recorded can also be traced back a long time ago, but the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of breast cancer, ages considered to be dangerous in many medical scientists are hard to predict, “10 of 12.”

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