What happens if You Have Stage 4 breast cancer?

What happens if You Have Stage 4 breast cancer?

     In recent years, the number of patients who are diagnosed with breast cancer in Indonesia continues to experience increased. In fact, diseases of the breast and cervical cancer is the cancer with the highest prevalence in Indonesia in the year 2013.


Breast cancer stages stages

Generally, breast cancer is categorized into four stages, namely:

Stage 1: this stage is the earliest stage. Tumor diameter at this stage is still small, even arguably does not usually exceed a two centimenter. But there is a possibility of small clusters of tumor growth found in the lymph nodes.  

Stage 2: at this stage the process of spread of cancer begins. Tumors in the breasts will enlarge but does not exceed five centimeters. Cancer may be starting to look at some of the lymph nodes.

Stage 3: doctors classify this step as an advanced stage, which is the size of the tumor is already increasingly enlarged and spread kaker already spread to the lymph nodes and tissues of the chest.

Stage 4: the cancer had already spread from the breast to the rest of the body. Stage 4 breast cancer ranked as the worst stages of intensive therapy and ongoing needs.

What does it mean if you are diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer?

     If you have been notified that you have metastatic breast cancer, this means that the cancer has been on stage 4. At this stage the cancer has already spread outside the breast tissue to other parts of the body such as the lungs, liver, bones or even the brain.

    Historically, metastatic breast cancer was considered incurable; the goal of treatment only to relieve symptoms, improve quality of life and extend the life of the patient allows.

    Metastatic breast cancer is not the same for all patients. Based on the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF), symptoms in stadium 4 will also be subject to the spread of cancer cells in your body.

Life expectancy for breast cancer stage 4

     The American Cancer Society (ACS) States if the life expectancy of patients with cancer of the breast stadium 4, for five years after diagnosis, is 22 percent. This percentage is much lower than the stadium early. On stage 3, 5-year survival rate after it was 72 percent. On stadium 2, more than 90 percent.

    Basically the level of life expectancy for breast cancer patients depends on the patient's condition. This for example age, health in General, resptor hormone in cancer cells, the tissue that has been affected, and suggestions based on attitude and view of the patient. However it should be noted that these statistics are not able to predict the future health and age of the patient. The prognosis of everyone else.

    By why, early diagnosis and treatment is very important to minimise the risk of development of breast cancer is getting worse. Discuss with your doctor to learn more about the individual factors that can affect Your prognosis.

The treatment can be done for the patient of breast cancer stage 4

     The presence of hormonal receptors in breast cancer cells to determine whether hormonal therapy is a treatment option that is right or not. If the cancer does not have estrogen receptors or progesterone, then it could be done chemo treatment. This treatment includes surgery, radiation therapy, a therapeutic target, or a combination of these treatment techniques.

     Multiple-treatment modalities (which use two or more treatment techniques), to increase the chance of patients to recover or extend survival and quality of life of the patient. In addition, the circumstances of each patient can also affect how the treatment will be carried out.

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