What are the targeted therapies for breast cancer?

Breast cancer can cause great harm to women, so it must be treated as early as possible. Breast cancer can be treated through surgical treatment, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. The treatment effects are quite significant. The key is to treat the disease according to the patient's symptoms. So what are the targeted treatments for breast cancer? Let’s find out.

With the deepening of understanding of the biological behavior of breast cancer and the transformation and updating of treatment concepts, the treatment of breast cancer has entered an era of comprehensive treatment, forming a treatment model that emphasizes both local and systemic treatment of breast cancer. Doctors will use a variety of methods, including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, biological targeted therapy, and auxiliary treatment with traditional Chinese medicine, depending on the stage of the tumor and the patient's physical condition. Surgery plays an important role in the diagnosis, staging and comprehensive treatment of breast cancer. Radiotherapy uses radiation to destroy the growth and reproduction of cancer cells, thereby controlling and eliminating cancer cells.

Surgery and radiotherapy are both local treatments. Chemotherapy is a treatment method that uses anti-cancer drugs to inhibit the division of cancer cells and destroy cancer cells. It is referred to as chemotherapy. Endocrine therapy uses drugs or removes endocrine glands to regulate the body's endocrine function and reduce the secretion of endocrine hormones, thereby achieving the purpose of treating breast cancer. Molecular targeted therapy is one of the most active research fields in recent years. Compared with chemotherapy drugs, it is a new type of anti-tumor therapeutic drug with a multi-link mechanism of action.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the principles of regulation and balance in treating tumors, restoring and enhancing the body's internal disease resistance, thereby achieving the goal of treating tumors with a balance of yin and yang. Chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, targeted therapy and traditional Chinese medicine treatment are all systemic treatments. During the treatment process, doctors will take into account both local and systemic treatments for patients, strive to cure patients with early and middle-stage breast cancer, and prolong the life of patients with advanced stages and improve their quality of life.

I hope that the introduction of targeted treatment methods for breast cancer will help patients and that female friends will not have any psychological burden. No matter what treatment method is used, the key is to persist and prescribe the right medicine for the disease. Targeted treatment for breast cancer is a commonly used treatment method in recent years, and its treatment effect is also quite significant.