Breast Cancer
Like other cancers, breast cancer is an uncontrolled growth of breast cells. Breast cancer occurs as a result of abnormal changes or mutation in the genes responsible for regulating the healthy growth of breast. The genes are in each cell’s nucleus, which acts as the “controller” of concern cell.
Mutation in gene disturb/mislead the normal process of the cell, because of that cells starts abnormaly and uncontrolled growth, producing more cells just like it and forming a tumor like structure.
This abnormal tumour-like growth can be benign (not cancerous) or malignant (cancerous property). Benign tumours are close to normal in appearance, they grow comparatively slowly, and they do not invade or spread to nearby tissue and other parts of the body. As malignant cells have the potential to grow as cancer If they left unchecked or untreated, they eventually can spread to nearby tissue and beyond an original tumour to other parts of the body.
Types of Breast cancer include:
- Angiosarcoma
- Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
- Inflammatory breast cancer
- Invasive lobular carcinoma
- Male breast cancer
- Paget's disease of the breast
- Recurrent breast cancer
Most common signs and symptoms include:
- A breast lump or thickening that feels different from the surrounding tissue
- Change in the size, shape or appearance of a breast
- Changes to the skin over the breast, such as dimpling
- A newly inverted nipple
- Peeling, scaling, crusting or flaking of the pigmented area of skin surrounding the nipple (areola) or breast skin
- Redness or pitting of the skin over your breast, like the skin of an orange
Hormone Therapy For Breast Cancer
Hormone therapy — perhaps more properly termed hormone-blocking therapy — is often used to treat breast cancers that are sensitive to hormones. Doctors sometimes refer to these cancers as estrogen receptor positive (ER positive) and progesterone receptor positive (PR positive) cancers.
Hormone therapy can be used before or after surgery or other treatments to decrease the chance of your cancer returning. If the cancer has already spread, hormone therapy may shrink and control it.
Treatments that can be used in hormone therapy include:
- Medications that block hormones from attaching to cancer cells (selective estrogen receptor modulators)
- Medications that stop the body from making estrogen after menopause (aromatase inhibitors)
- Surgery or medications to stop hormone production in the ovaries
Top Doctors In India For Hormone Therapy For Breast Cancer
Dr. Amit Agrawal
26 years of experience , New Delhi, Delhi/NCR, India
Dr. Sushant Mittal
10 years of experience , New Delhi, Delhi/NCR, India
Dr. Samit Purohit
10 years of experience , New Delhi, Delhi/NCR, India
Dr. Chandragouda Dodagoudar
18 years of experience , New Delhi, Delhi/NCR, India
Top Hospitals In India For Hormone Therapy For Breast Cancer
Jaypee Hospital, Noida
Established in : 2013
BLK Super speciality hospital, New Delhi
Established in : 1959
Artemis Hospital, Gurugram
Established in : 2007
Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi
Established in : 2006