What is endocrine therapy for breast cancer?

Breast cancer is a fatal disease for women. We must do a good job of disease prevention in daily life and develop good habits. Endocrine therapy can be used to treat breast cancer, which has a certain effect on the treatment of breast cancer. We hope that patients can pay attention to it and treat the disease as soon as possible. So what is endocrine therapy for breast cancer? Let’s find out.

Endocrine therapy is one of the main systemic treatments for breast cancer. As early as the end of the 19th century, people had begun to use bilateral oophorectomy to treat premenopausal advanced breast cancer. In the 1970s, the introduction of tamoxifen became a new milestone in the endocrine drug treatment of breast cancer. In the 1990s, the introduction of the third-generation aromatase inhibitors ushered in a new era in the endocrine treatment of breast cancer. Endocrine therapy plays a very important role in hormone-dependent recurrent and metastatic breast cancer, and in the adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer after surgery. It can even be used to prevent breast cancer in high-risk healthy women.

Endocrine therapy is a type of breast cancer treatment that achieves an anti-tumor effect by lowering and eliminating estrogen levels in the body, preventing the growth and reproduction of tumors. Doctors first realized that breast cancer has a clear relationship with estrogen levels in the body. From the initial surgical removal of the ovaries to the current development of drug therapy with multiple therapeutic mechanisms, this treatment has a history of more than 100 years.

With the continuous development and application of therapeutic drugs, it can be said that endocrine therapy has become a very important and effective means of treating breast cancer, with its unique advantages.

I hope that this introduction to endocrine therapy for breast cancer will be helpful to our female friends. We should also pay attention to disease prevention in our daily lives, especially maintaining a happy mood and optimistic attitude to avoid triggering the onset of the disease. We also hope that patients can exercise regularly to enhance their resistance and immunity.