1. What is breast cancer chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy refers to chemical drugs (generally refers to cytotoxic drugs), mainly through oral, intravenous or arterial entry into the body, killing tumor cells that may exist in various tissues and organs of the body. It can effectively control the spread and metastasis of tumor and improve the curative effect. Kill cancer cells at the same time, there is also damage to normal tissue cells, that is, side effects. Chemotherapy is one of the important means for the treatment of breast cancer. with the development of medicine, chemotherapeutic drugs with better effect and lower side effects will appear.2. What is radiotherapy for breast cancer.
Radiotherapy is the use of high-energy radiation to destroy tumor cells to achieve the purpose of killing tumor cells. It plays an important role in postoperative adjuvant therapy and palliative treatment of advanced breast cancer, which can not only reduce the risk of local recurrence, but also improve the overall survival rate. Radiotherapy is mainly used in the following situations: after operation for breast cancer with large mass or axillary lymph node metastasis.
