Breast Cancer Treatment Information

Welcome to Breast Cancer Focus, your online resource for learning about
the treatment of early-stage and advanced breast cancer. The engaging
videos and articles you'll find here feature leading breast cancer experts
and can help you make sense of the alphabet soup of chemotherapy
combinations you've probably already encountered. So explore Breast
Cancer Focus to gather high-quality information about your
breast cancer treatment options.

Supported through an educational grant from Sanofi-Aventis.

by Healthology

Feature Webcast

Chemotherapy Options
for Metastatic Breast Cancer

Learning about all of the different treatment options for metastatic breast cancer can be daunting. Here is what you need to know about chemotherapy.

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Feature Article

Role Reversal: Chemo Before Surgery for Breast Cancer
When it comes to breast cancer treatment, there is usually a standard sequence of events. First a woman has surgery, then, if necessary, she has chemotherapy. But a number of studies have reversed the order of treatment.
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Ask Your Doctor

Breast Cancer Focus has provided you with a list
of questions to ask your doctor about adjuvant
therapy for breast cancer, as well as tips for
preparing for these conversations.
Tips for Talking to Your Doctor
About Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer
statistics

• More than 200,00 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women are expected to occur in 2005 in the United States
• More than 1,600 new invasive cases will occur in men
• Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women
• The 5-year survival rate for breast cancer that has not spread to the lymph nodes is 98 percent

A breast cancer diagnosis is never easy. But today's patients are much more likely to be able to resume a healthy and long life after treatment than women with breast cancer in their mothers' generation. Scientists say the picture has brightened because of better screening and better treatment. So, how has breast cancer treatment improved?

Innovative treatments, including more targeted chemotherapy drugs, biological therapies and hormone therapies, have been developed to attack cancer from a variety of angles. And new approaches are being tried today, such as neoadjuvant chemotherapy, which allows more women to have breast-conserving therapy by shrinking the tumor before surgery. Learn more about the advances in breast cancer treatment research by exploring Breast Cancer Focus.