Articles of category "breast cancer treatment"

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer found among women in the United States next to lung cancer. It is estimated that 1 in 8 women in the United States will get breast cancer at some point during their lives. Despite all of the hard work and funding that has gone into breast cancer research, we are still nowhere closer to finding a cure for this disease.

While medical research has discovered at least one drug that can provide targeted treatment for some breast cancers, the lumpectomy remains the standard method of treatment. The lumpectomy has replaced the once-dreaded mastectomy. As medical research progresses, the treatment of breast cancer might change yet again. There might be more drugs for treating breast cancer.

The following article is on a subject that is of great concern to most women, breast cancer. The author of this article has devoted many years to conducting research on cancer. She has grown many different lines of breast cancer cells. In addition she has accumulated much literature, literature distributed by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute.