How long can you live with advanced breast cancer and how to treat it

Patients with breast cancer are actually more afraid that the disease will be delayed to the late stage, because late-stage breast cancer is more difficult to treat, so some late-stage patients want to know how long they can live. There is no certainty for such a question. It depends on the effectiveness of the treatment and the patient's physical condition.

Patients with breast cancer are most afraid of the disease progressing to the late stage. However, there are still many patients with advanced breast cancer in clinical practice. For these patients and their families, what they want to know most is: How long can they live with advanced breast cancer? They all hope to save their lives through various means and efforts. However, for the treatment of breast cancer, it is often necessary to maintain a good attitude, supplement nutrition, and cooperate with effective treatments in order to live longer.

How long can you live with advanced breast cancer?

Patients with advanced breast cancer certainly hope that they can live longer, and their families also have such a wish, but many people are still worried that they will not live long. Do you want to know how long can patients with advanced breast cancer live? In fact, this is related to many factors, including the patient's mentality, physical fitness, and the treatment received.

Experts point out that there is currently no accurate determination of how long a patient with advanced breast cancer can live. The reason is that there are many factors that restrict the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment, among which the main restrictive factors are whether the treatment method adopted by the patient is appropriate and the patient's physical fitness. Patients with advanced breast cancer and their families should learn more about the treatment of advanced breast cancer and communicate more with their attending physicians, which will help them understand breast cancer.

Treatment of advanced breast cancer

When breast cancer develops to the late stage, patients can no longer undergo surgical resection. Currently, the main methods for treating advanced breast cancer in clinical practice include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment.

1. Radiation therapy

Radiation therapy can also effectively control the development of tumors and shrink them to a certain extent. Usually, radiation therapy combined with chemotherapy is more effective than radiotherapy alone or chemotherapy alone. However, radiotherapy can also cause harm to the patient's body. While killing tumor cells, it also kills normal cells in the patient's body. Therefore, breast cancer patients with poor physical function should use this therapy with caution.

2. Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy can control the development of tumors to a certain extent, but the toxic and side effects of this therapy will increase with the extension of treatment time. Therefore, chemotherapy drugs and chemotherapy time must be determined based on the tumor, symptom relief and treatment-related toxicity.

3. Integrated treatment of traditional Chinese and Western medicine

Integrated treatment of Chinese and Western medicine can make up for the deficiencies of surgical treatment, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It can not only consolidate the effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but also eliminate the toxic side effects during radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine and surgical treatment can effectively remove residual cancer cells and tiny lesions after surgery, prevent tumor recurrence and metastasis, reduce the occurrence of complications in patients, promote better recovery of patients, and improve their quality of life. Used in combination with radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it can reduce the toxic side effects and infection rate of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, improve the efficacy of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, alleviate patients' adverse reactions, and improve the quality of life of breast cancer patients.