After a breast cancer diagnosis, you and your doctors will put together a treatment plan specific to your situation, based on your pathology report. Your treatment plan will be made up of one or more specific treatments that are intended to target the cancer cells in different ways and reduce the risk of future breast cancer recurrence. You and your doctor will base your treatment decisions on YOUR unique situation, including consideration of your overall medical condition and your personal style of making decisions. You may have to re-evaluate your decisions periodically. Your medical team will be your guide.
Successfully treating breast cancer means getting rid of the cancer or getting it under control for an extended period of time. But because a breast cancer is made up of many different kinds of cancer cells, getting rid of all those cells can require different types of treatments.
Your treatment plan may include a combination of the following treatments of breast cancer:
Designing your personal treatment strategy to treat breast cancer requires a lot of careful thought. The ideal treatment plan works against all the things inside the cells that caused the cancer to develop, are making it grow, and may make it spread to other parts of the body.
