Can early breast cancer be cured?

Everyone will pale when hearing the word breast cancer, but not all breast cancer symptoms are uncontrollable. If it is found in the early stage, there is still hope for treatment. Can early breast cancer be cured? What are the treatments for early breast cancer? Let's learn about it together below.

Can early-stage breast cancer be cured?

Can breast cancer be cured in the early stages? This is a question that many breast cancer patients and their relatives are particularly concerned about. It is possible for breast cancer to be completely cured, but of course there are also cases where it can only extend the life span. Generally speaking, early breast cancer tumors are small and have not spread or metastasized, so surgical removal is the most effective treatment. Breast-conserving surgery is an important method of surgical treatment for early breast cancer. Basic tumor radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery has good results. The 5-year survival rate of breast cancer patients after surgical removal is over 60%.

Although the incidence of breast cancer has increased in recent years, it is one of the very few solid tumors that can be cured. As the world's research on breast cancer has made great progress from basic to clinical medicine, the factors affecting the incidence of breast cancer have gradually been revealed by research laboratories. The diagnosis methods of breast cancer are constantly improving. In addition, women's awareness of breast cancer prevention has increased, and the survival rate of breast cancer has been greatly improved. Today, the 10-year survival rate for stage I breast cancer has reached 90%. Patients with early-stage breast cancer can not only achieve very long-term survival, but also preserve their breasts; some patients in the middle and late stages can also prolong their lives through comprehensive treatment. Many early-stage patients can achieve very good results in both function and beauty through comprehensive breast-conserving treatment, and can live and work like normal people. In this sense, breast cancer can be completely cured.

What are the treatments for breast cancer?

There are currently two treatments for breast cancer: 1. Surgery 2. Radiotherapy

For surgical treatment of breast cancer, most breast cancer patients need to undergo surgery to remove the breast tumor and perform axillary lymph node clearance surgery at the same time. Then, the tumor cell type and whether the axillary lymph nodes are invaded by tumor cells are observed under a microscope.

Breast-conserving surgery: It is a surgical treatment to remove the tumor in the breast but preserve the breast, including: 1) Lumpectomy: surgical treatment to remove the lump and a small part of the surrounding normal breast tissue; 2) Partial or wedge mastectomy: surgical treatment to remove a part of the breast, including the tumor and a part of the normal breast.