Male Breast Cancer

Some people might think what is breast cancer in men? Or how is it diagnosed? Reading this article will help give you all the information you need. Breast cancer is a malignant tumor, group of cells that grow into surrounding tissues or spread to other parts of the body, which starts cells of the breast. Women usually get breast cancer but men also have breast tissue that are nonfunctional (doesn't produce milk) so they might as well get it.

External Radiation Therapy

External Radiation Therapy, also known as external beam therapy, carries high beam of radiation by x- rays and sends them directly to breast cancer cells. The high beam is send by a large machine called a linear accelerator and targeted at the tumor site, this treatment option for breast cancer is delivered in two treatment fields: one starts in the middle of the chest and faces the side, while the other starts from the side breast and faces the middle of the chest, where the breastbone is located.

Internal Radiation Therapy

Radiation Therapy is also known as partial - breast therapy or brachy therapy because it usually therapy after lumpectomy surgery and/or regular treatment. It uses radioactive substance that is closed by wires or needles and are placed near the breast cancer cell (for first time treatment) or therapy were the cancer was (for therapy after lumpectomy) There are two different methods of giving Internal Radiation: Multi-Catheter and Balloon-Catheter Internal Radiation.

Breast Cancer Surgery

The first treatment option for breast cancer in the line that medical doctors refer to first is surgery. After viewing your characteristics such as: size, stage, biological characteristics and your personal profile medical doctors would recommend surgery as step one.

Radiation Therapy

     Radiation therapy is the best treatment options for breast cancer since it can treat all stages of breast cancer, from stage 0 to stage 3. It can be treated after Lumpectomy or Mastectomy surgeries, it has the ability to destroy and cancerous cells that might be in the breast after the tumor has been removed. Pregnant women should NOT have radiation therapy.

Biological Therapy

     Biological Therapy is known by many terms such as: Immunotherapy, immunologic therapy and bio-therapy. This treatment option uses the bodies immune system or drugs to act on cancerous cells without harming the normal cells of breast. One form of treatment they use are antibodies, which is a type of protein that can attach to other specific proteins called antigens, to attack cancerous cell or stop their activities. Some antibodies that are used in this treatment option for breast cancer are Herceptin and trastuzumab.

Chemotherapy Treatment

Chemotherapy treatment uses medicine, a combination of one or more kind of medicine, to target all cancer cells in the body and at the original cancer site by going through the bloodstream. Then it weakens them, kills them and most likely prevent them from re-occurrence. There are two main treatment options in chemotherapy: Stem cell and bone narrow, Activant and Navigant.

Hormonal Therapy

This treatment links hormones and breast cancer. Hormonal therapy can be given before, during or after any treatment options for breast cancer. Its usually used for early stage hormone, receptor, positive breast cancer so it can stop the risk of any cancer that might show up after surgery, for advanced stage breast cancer and for hormone, receptor, positive, who hasn’t yet been diagnosed with breast cancer but are at but are at high risk to get breast cancer.