The current method of clinical treatment of breast cancer, there are many, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Chinese medicine treatment and so on. Currently, radiotherapy and chemotherapy on the human body much damage, there are many toxic side effects, Chinese medicine can be used in the postoperative adjuvant conditioning, will be restored faster. Then, in the clinical chemotherapy which are suitable for it?
1. Premenopausal patients;
2. Axillary lymph node metastasis;
3. Receptor (ER and PR)-negative persons;
4. Have other risk factors for recurrence and metastasis of the patients;
5. The primary tumor is greater.
Side effects after treatment are the following:
1. Weakness: Most are caused by chemotherapy in patients with fatigue, slow recovery after chemotherapy.
2. Cardiac Toxicity: adriamycin (ADM) applied to a certain cumulative dose, would cause irreversible damage to the heart. Can choose to use a small cardiac toxicity of epirubicin (or epirubicin), reduce cardiac toxicity.
3. Alopecia: Adriamycin often leads to more serious hair loss, after stopping, president of the new hair.
4. Suppression of ovarian function: may cause some pre-menopausal women lose their fertility without the opportunity to give birth.
5. Bone marrow suppression: the blood cells, white blood cells are mainly (WBC) reduction, WBC less than 3.0 脳 109 / L, the patient anti-infective capability greatly reduced. Chemotherapy given after granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), can effectively stimulate the bone marrow, rapid increase in white blood cell levels.
6. Gastrointestinal tract reaction: It is the most common side effects of chemotherapy, nausea and vomiting usually presents a small number of patients will have diarrhea. Before chemotherapy, prophylactic use of antiemetic drugs can usually prevent or reduce the gastrointestinal tract response.
