A Practical Guide to Breast Cancer Treatment

초록

This chapter is a general overview briefly describing the treatment of breast cancer, intended to aid understanding of the various cases that will be mentioned in this book. Treatment for breast cancer includes local and systemic treatments, which are divided into pre-surgery neoadjuvant therapy and post-surgery adjuvant therapy. Local treatment consists of surgery and radiation therapy, with surgeries divided into breast surgery and axillary lymph node surgery. The drugs that can be used for systemic treatment include chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy, with a variety of drugs continually being developed and applied. This chapter aims to easily explain not only the traditional treatments that have been practiced and already verified for effectiveness, but also new proposed treatments. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023. All rights reserved.