For patients with stage II or III breast cancer, radiation therapy is frequently integrated into multi-modality treatment approaches to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence whether patients are ...
and treated (the current standard of treatment for early-stage breast cancer is lumpectomy followed by radiation), there is a 97% rate of five-year survival. 1
This gave people a chance to digest the news so that when I returned everyone was really supportive. Since then I have always been very up-front that I have had breast cancer
Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Breast Cancer Format for Printing Radiation therapy (or radiotherapy) uses high-energy rays to stop cancer cells from growing and dividing