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Patients and their diseases are profiled in order to identify the most effective treatment for their specific case. Targeted therapy or molecularly targeted therapy is one of the major modalities of medical treatment (pharmacotherapy) for cancer, [1] others being hormonal therapy and cytotoxic chemotherapy.
Cancer treatments are a wide range of treatments available for the many different types of cancer, with each cancer type needing its own specific treatment. [1] Treatments can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy including small-molecule drugs or monoclonal antibodies, [2] and PARP inhibitors such as olaparib. [3]
Breast cancer management takes different approaches depending on physical and biological characteristics of the disease, as well as the age, over-all health and personal preferences of the patient. Treatment types can be classified into local therapy (surgery and radiotherapy) and systemic treatment (chemo-, endocrine, and targeted therapies).
Follow-up of cancer patients after successful treatment; Palliative care of patients with terminal malignancies; Ethical questions surrounding cancer care; Screening efforts: of populations, or; of the relatives of patients (in types of cancer that are thought to have a hereditary basis, such as breast cancer)
The rates of breast cancer have risen annually from 2012 to 2021, according to the American Cancer Society, but in women younger than 50, that rate has been a 1.4% annual increase. For women 50 ...
It is used as endocrine therapy for women with estrogen or progesterone receptor-positive, stage 4 or recurrent metastatic breast cancer [7] and has demonstrated similar efficacy compared to tamoxifen as adjuvant treatment of breast cancer and in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. [6]
Researchers predict that by 2030, 5.5 million women could be dying from cancer every year. According to the American Cancer Society, that would be an almost 60 percent rise in deaths over just two ...
Warner and her colleagues conducted a meta-analysis that looked at 18 studies with nearly 230,000 patients with breast cancer in total, 34,000 of whom were Black, comparing the mortality rates of ...