The treatment of breast cancer includes surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, biological targeted therapy and endocrine therapy. Clinically, doctors will choose appropriate treatment methods according to patients' demands and the specific conditions of diseases. Early breast cancer is often ignored because of atypical symptoms, so many people have missed the best treatment time when they come to see a doctor. Surgery plays an important role in the treatment of breast cancer, but because the breast is a special organ, it will affect the appearance after resection, so doctors will consider the patient's demands to a great extent when treating it.

Here are some common clinical treatments for breast cancer.

1, many people's concept of radiotherapy and chemotherapy is vague and confusing. From their names, we can understand that radiotherapy uses radiation and chemotherapy uses chemical drugs, both of which can inhibit the division and proliferation of cancer cells; Endocrine therapy refers to controlling the secretion of certain hormones through drugs, thus inhibiting the growth of tumor cells.

2. Modified radical mastectomy is the most commonly used surgical method to treat breast cancer. It needs to remove the breast and axillary lymph nodes of the affected side and is suitable for most breast cancer patients. This method is more thorough, but it will cause a series of complications because axillary lymph nodes are removed.

3. Improved radical mastectomy. Early breast cancer patients can consider modified radical mastectomy, because the lesions are small, found in time, and the cancer cells have not spread, but they must meet the conditions of breast conservation, such as negative margin of enlarged resection, strong demand for breast conservation, small lesions and a certain distance from the nipple.

For women who want to have a beautiful figure, it is unacceptable to have their breasts removed. This kind of patients can choose modified radical operation and primary reconstruction, that is, after mastectomy, plastic surgery can be used for breast reconstruction, and the reconstructed tissue can choose itself or other materials.

5. Simple mastectomy plus sentinel lymph node biopsy. As mentioned above, axillary lymph node dissection will cause edema or damage to axillary nerves and other sequelae. Sentinel lymph nodes are the first step for breast cancer to spread to axillary lymph nodes. Early breast cancer patients can do sentinel lymph node biopsy first, and when the biopsy result is negative, axillary lymph node dissection can be omitted. However, it is worth noting that due to various reasons, sentinel lymph node biopsy will have a certain false negative rate.

6. Some patients find that the lesions are very small and the time is limited. At this time, local enlarged resection can be performed, only the tumor and its surrounding tissues need to be removed, and total mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection are not allowed.

7. In recent years, biological targeted therapy has been very active. Compared with chemotherapy drugs, it is a new anti-tumor drug with multi-link mechanism.