Chemotherapy before surgery?
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 00:00 My cancer was advanced, Stage IIIa. Having spread to lymph nodes and having a large tumor made me a perfect candidate for neo-adjuvant chemotherapy.
During this chemotherapy, my oncology team monitored the progress and found that the tumor was shrinking and in fact, breaking up. This was an indication that the chemotherapy drugs were the right ones, were working effectively against the tumor and that the tumor was responding - dying.
In the following video, there is discussion of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy being used, in this instance in patients with another type of cancer, but the modality is also used successfully in many breast cancer patients. There are some other breast cancer news in this video, including the emerging role of plentiful fruits and vegetables in the diet of breast cancer patients, as well as the important role of daily exercise.
Enjoy and learn.
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