{"id":826,"date":"2016-09-09T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrugstore.md\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2011-09-09T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T01:19:09","slug":"breast-cancer-news-l090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/current-health-news\/breast-cancer-news-l090\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast cancer treatment news"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>About one in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime.\u00a0 According to breastcancer.org an estimated 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer\u00a0will be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 54,010 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer in 2010 alone.<\/p>\n

The treatment for breast cancer is often several rounds of chemotherapy as well as surgery.\u00a0 A new study shows the order of these treatments doesn\u2019t matter, both are effective.<\/p>\n

Details of the study<\/strong>
\nThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reviewed medical records of 3,000+ women and found that chemotherapy followed by surgery or surgery followed by chemotherapy are both effective methods.\u00a0 The order of the treatments doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf the patients surveyed, 78 percent had surgery before chemotherapy and 22 percent received chemotherapy first,\u201d the study stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cFive and 10-year survival rates were excellent for both groups: 97 percent and 94 percent respectively for those who had surgery before chemotherapy, 93 percent and 90 percent for patients who received chemotherapy first.\u201d<\/p>\n

If age is factored into those results the survival rate is equal.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What it means for women battling breast cancer<\/strong>
\n“Even women who present with clinical Stage 2 or 3 breast cancer may have good results with breast conserving therapy after chemotherapy and not need a mastectomy,” said Elizabeth Ann Mittendorf, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology and lead author of the study.<\/p>\n

“The molecular characteristics of the tumor and other factors have an impact on treatment success, but not the order in which chemotherapy and surgery are given.”<\/p>\n

The next step<\/strong>
\nResearchers would like to continue to investigate the order of therapies.\u00a0 As technology changes, new advances and treatments<\/a> are always happening. A new 3-D imaging machine<\/a> is now helping doctors diagnose cancer, proving that the options to patients are constantly improving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About one in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime.\u00a0 According to breastcancer.org an estimated 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer\u00a0will be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 54,010 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer in 2010 alone. The treatment for breast cancer is often several rounds of chemotherapy as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-health-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t