What is the difference between radiotherapy and chemotherapy for breast cancer?

Breast cancer must be treated promptly. The most common treatments are surgery and tumor radiotherapy. Many people do not know the difference between radiotherapy and chemotherapy, as well as their advantages and disadvantages. In order to help you realize your wish of a speedy recovery, I would like to briefly introduce the differences between radiotherapy and chemotherapy for breast cancer. I hope it will be helpful to all patients.

Radiation therapy

First of all, what we often call radiotherapy is actually a simple chemical therapy, which is a way of treating diseases with synthetic drugs. The advantages of radiotherapy are well known to everyone. Whether it is in TV dramas or in daily life, as long as someone has cancer, they basically need radiotherapy. This also shows that the therapeutic effect of radiotherapy is still good, but because of the chemicals, while killing tumor cells, it also causes damage to normal human cells, resulting in many side effects.

There are many drugs used in radiotherapy. These special drugs have excellent destructive effects on tumor cells, and many of them come from nature. Currently, there are more than 50 common chemotherapy drugs, including epirubicin, doxorubicin, daunorubicin, mitomycin, etc., which can be used for different patients with different effects.

Radiotherapy for tumors

Tumor radiotherapy is one of the three key treatments for cancer. Radiation inhibits and kills tumor cells. It can not only be used independently, but also can be integrated with surgery and radiotherapy, with good comprehensive treatment effects.

The advantage of chemoradiotherapy is that it can reduce tumor volume. Some patients who are not suitable for surgery after radiotherapy can meet the surgical criteria and have the opportunity to recover through surgery. Terminal cancer patients can also be treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy to alleviate the effects of oppression and pain.

But there is no doubt that while tumor radiotherapy produces therapeutic effects, it also produces side effects, such as weakness, fatigue, sweating, and drowsiness. At the same time, the immune system will also be weakened.

In general, this is a detailed explanation of the differences between radiotherapy and chemotherapy for breast cancer. I hope it will be helpful to everyone. Many friends will experience symptoms such as decreased appetite, nausea and retching after radiotherapy and chemotherapy. This is normal. In order to reduce the side effects on the body, Chinese herbal medicine can be used for comprehensive treatment. During the illness, patients should not take medicine blindly. They must take medicine under the advice of a doctor to avoid causing more serious harm to the body. They must pay attention to a healthy diet in daily life and avoid eating spicy food. Patients should not smoke or drink.