How to treat breast cancer?

  Comprehensive treatment of breast cancer is a planned and purposeful combination of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, endocrine and herbal treatment.  Why should breast cancer be treated in an integrated manner?  1. Don’t think that if the lump grows on the breast, removing the breast will be the end of the story. Because breast cancer is a systemic disease, cancer not only grows, expands and infiltrates locally in the breast, but also can metastasize to regional lymph nodes through lymphatic fluid and lymphatic vessels, as well as to the whole body through blood. Therefore, removal of breast and regional lymph nodes only completes one part of the whole treatment without other auxiliary treatment measures, such as chemotherapy cannot kill cancer cells that enter the blood, and once it lays in important organs, it will destroy the normal physiological function of that organ and cause death.  2.Good effect of comprehensive treatment and high survival rate From the treatment plan and results of more than 10,000 patients in the 50s-90s, it can be seen that from mostly no chemotherapy in the 50s to the integrated use of sequential treatment of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine, immune, gene and Chinese medicine in the 90s, the 5-year survival rate has increased by 31% compared with the survival rate in the 50s.  How to carry out integrated treatment?  Depending on the patient’s specific situation, the early stage of the disease, the pathological inflammatory pattern, the number of axillary lymph node metastases and the status of the receptors, different combination treatment plans are adopted. Early stage breast cancer (intraductal cancer and early infiltration) has very low risk of recurrence and can be treated without chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Intermediate stage can be treated with post-operative chemotherapy (including those above 1.5cm, which is a medium risk of recurrence). In advanced stage (metastasis in axillary lymph nodes), radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other adjuvant treatments should be given before, during and after surgery.