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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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Chinese medicine practitioners to patients with breast cancer after onset caused by the meridians, organs, blood, yin and yang aspects of the different pathological changes, summed up as often as liver qi stagnation of early breast cancer, and subsequently appeared Qi stagnation blood stasis symptoms, blood Yu Zhi If it persists, heat, cause insidious strong, falling into decline caused by blood virtual. But its basic still-Yang Qi, throughout the breast cancer has always been, even if the breast cancer drug Accumulation of the signs of a fever, Yang Qi is still fundamental, it is merely due to Qi stagnation blood stasis blocking the meridians, drugs, and hot junction Xiangbo junction made of heat in this cold standard card, then the main treatment for breast cancer may reduce it Onyang drug or dose, additional heat detoxification drugs, but can not be simply Qingrejiedu and forget the root of yang, or backfire.

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Conventional treatment of breast cancer radiotherapy is one of the methods of their cancer cells have a more direct role in the killing. However, the lack of selectivity due to radiation in killing tumor cells while normal cells can also cause damage will produce a series of radiation side-effects, the damage of the human body function, so that the body’s resistance to disease has dropped significantly, to the tumor can take the of the machine. Common side effects of breast cancer radiotherapy following:

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Clinically, breast cancer treatment methods are mainly surgical resection, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine. Clinical experience has shown that a single treatment of breast cancer has some limitations, so far, the best treatment is the advantages of combination of treatments to carry out comprehensive treatment of breast cancer.

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Drug treatment is an important one kind of treatment of breast cancer, especially in advanced breast cancer patients used more often. Drug therapy includes chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine treatment, current treatment of breast cancer drug varieties of many, many patients and family members of patients will be asked to treat breast cancer, what is the best medicine? From the chemotherapy drugs and Chinese medicine are two aspects to be analyzed.

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Breast cancer is harmful to women’s health, one of the major malignant tumor, its etiology is not fully clear, premenopausal and postmenopausal estrogen is to stimulate an obvious factor in primary breast cancer occurred. Along with raising the level of medicine, the treatment of breast cancer have significantly improved the status quo than in the past, but the treatment of advanced breast cancer the situation is still unsatisfactory, the treatment effects and treatment choices and physical function in patients with the. So, how advanced breast cancer treated?

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Endocrine therapy for breast cancer cure in nature but for non-hormone-dependent breast cancer, but it can receive different levels of palliative effect. The cytoplasm and nuclei of cancer cells within the estrogen receptor (ER) content of the more of its hormone-dependent are also stronger and should bear in mind that breast cancer occurred before menopause and amenorrhea occurred after a difference in the treatment of breast cancer.

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Radiation therapy is a major component of treatment for breast cancer is one of the means of local treatment. Compared with the surgical treatment are less prone to anatomy, patients with physical limitations and other factors, but the effects of radiation therapy is being affected by the impact of the biological effects of radiation. Commonly used in radiotherapy facilities, with the current more difficult to achieve “full kill” the purpose of tumors, the effect worse than the surgery, therefore, at present most scholars do not advocate the right line of incurable breast cancer radiotherapy alone.

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Surgical treatment of breast cancer remains the major means of surgical treatment of a variety of its options are still lacking a unified opinion, the general trend is to minimize the surgical damage to the device under the right conditions allow try to breast-conserving therapy in patients with early breast cancer appearance . No matter what kind of surgical use must be strictly controlled in order to cure the main function and appearance retention, supplemented by principle.

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