Breast Cancer

Paper Summary:

This paper examines different types of treatment for breast cancer. The writer compares and contrasts chemotherapy and radiation, their uses, their successes and their failures.

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Introduction
The Options
Conclusion
References

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"If the tumor is more than five centimeters or the cancer has been located in many lymph nodes then radiation therapy may still be recommended for the site but it will usually be coupled with a recommendation of chemotherapy as well.
Chemotherapy provides a systemic dose of cancer medications that are introduced to the body through intravenous methods. Chemotherapy for breast cancer isn't usually for the actual breast cancer, but is for the cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. This is determined with lymph node biopsies and full body cat scans designed to locate any other cancer."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cancer treatment(accessed 3-24-06)http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_4X_Treatment_by_Stage_Breast_Cancer_5.asp?sitearea
• Cooper, Siran, Rimm Gregory. (2003), Ability of Medicaid claims data to identify incident cases of breast cancer in the Ohio Medicaid population. Health Services Research
• Hughes, Kevin.(1996) Breast cancer in the nineties.AORN Journal;
• Silverstein., Mary. (1994) Targeting a silent epidemic: Cancer survivor raises her voice on Jewish Exponent;

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