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Bookmark or Share- Chemotherapy for breast cancer - Mayo ClinicChemotherapy for breast cancer uses drugs to target and destroy breast cancer cells. These drugs are usually injected directly into a vein through a needle or taken by mouth as pills. Chemotherapy for breast cancer frequently is used in addition to other treatments, such as surgery, radiation or hormone therapy.
- Breast cancer - Symptoms and causes - Mayo ClinicBreast cancer is a kind of cancer that begins as a growth of cells in the breast tissue. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States. But breast cancer doesn't just happen in women.
- Invasive lobular carcinoma - Symptoms and causes - Mayo ClinicInvasive lobular carcinoma is a type of breast cancer that begins as a growth of cells in the milk-producing glands of the breast. These glands are called lobules. Invasive cancer means that the cancer cells have broken out of the lobule where they began and spread into the breast tissue.
- Breast implants and cancer: Any connection? - Mayo ClinicThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has identified a possible link between breast implants and a type of cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). ALCL is a rare cancer of the immune system.
- Commonly asked questions about breast cancer recurrenceIf you have earlier stages of breast cancer (stages 0, I, II), chances of disease-free survival in the next 5 years are as high as 95%. This means with treatment, there is up to a 95% chance the cancer will not come back or recur. If you have later-stage breast cancer (stage III), the risk of recurrence is higher.
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