Breast Cancer Program

Treatments and Services

Our multidisciplinary treatment model brings together doctors with different areas of expertise so that they can find the treatment that works best for you. This means you may have one treatment or many treatments.

Our job is to treat the woman who has breast cancer, not just cancer. The best health outcomes can only happen when treatment fits into your life, rather than the other way around.

To help make sure you can focus on the important things, we have resources available to help you with non-medical needs, from transportation to housing. BMC can also help facilitate care for anyone without insurance or whose insurance may not cover the care they need. Talk to your doctor to learn more.

Throughout your treatment, we encourage you to keep moving forward with your normal life as much as possible. Our goal is to get you to a cure, and we want you to be ready when you get there.

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Diagnostic Tests

Treatments

Breast Surgery

Most women with breast cancer will have some type of breast surgery as part of their treatment plan. The purpose of surgery is to remove as much of the cancer as possible. There are several types of surgery, including surgery to remove the cancer, surgery to see whether the cancer has spread, surgery to reconstruct the breast after it or part of it has been removed and surgery to relieve the symptoms of advanced cancer.

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Hormone Therapy

Hormone therapy is used to treat cancers that are hormone receptor-positive (meaning there are hormone receptors present in the cells). Breast cancers can be estrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive), progesterone receptor-positive (PR-positive) or both (referred to simply as hormone receptor-positive). The female hormone estrogen can fuel cancer growth. Hormone therapy drugs block the effects of estrogen or lower its levels.

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Immunotherapy

For patients with advanced-stage melanoma, immunotherapy may improve the body’s natural immune response to cancer. Immunotherapy recruits the body’s own immune system and uses it to fight cancer all over the body, making it difficult for cancer cells to hide or develop defenses against it. Immunotherapy has the potential to keep working even after the patient has completed treatment.

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Lymph Node Surgery

Some breast cancer patients may need lymph node surgery. Lymph node surgery is performed for staging purposes to find out whether the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes under the arm (axillary lymph nodes). One or more lymph nodes may be removed for examination under a microscope in one of two ways: an axillary lymph node dissection or a sentinel lymph node biopsy.

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Mastectomy

Mastectomy removes the whole breast. There are multiple types of mastectomy. The two most common types of mastectomy are simple (total) mastectomy and modified radical mastectomy. A simple mastectomy removes just the breast. When the lymph nodes underneath the arm (called the axillary lymph nodes) are removed in addition to the breast, it is called a modified radical mastectomy.

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Important Announcements

Breast Cancer Program

Treatments and Services

Diagnostic Tests

Bone Scans

Breast MRI

Breast Ultrasound

Chest X-ray

Computed Tomography (CT) Scan

Duplex Ultrasound

Mammogram

Treatments

Breast Surgery

Breast-Conserving Surgery

Chemotherapy

Hormone Therapy

Immunotherapy

Lymph Node Dissection

Lymph Node Surgery

Mastectomy

Organ or Muscle Biopsy

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