***Chemotherapy is one option for treatment, but doctors often use radiation as well. Radiation is a common treatment that doctors use for all types of cancer, and more than half of people diagnosed with cancer will end up going through radiation at some point (Mayo Clinic, 2014). Radiation is a therapy that is normally used after the surgical removal of the breast cancer to kill any leftover cancer cells. Radiation therapy uses high-energy rays to eliminate the cancer cells just like chemotherapy does. Radiation therapy may also use x-rays, gamma rays, electron beams, or protons, to eliminate the cancer cells. Radiation therapy can also be known as radiotherapy, irradiation, or x-ray therapy. Radiation is done with a linear accelerator (LINAC)
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Radiation is usually fairly tolerable and always most patients to remain living the same way that they were before the treatments. The most common side effect that patients get is some moderate fatigue and skin damage or some irritation. The skin damage will begin within the first few weeks of treatment, and is usually gone after one to two weeks after the completion of the treatment. A long-term side effect can be changes in the texture and color of the skin, and the shape of the breast that received radiation may also change. Some other side effects that a patient could have is diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, mouth sores, and there is also hair loss (OncoLink, 2016). Each patient is different and may have many of these or maybe none, it all just depends on the patient and the radiation that they took. One of the last options for treatment of male breast cancer is hormone therapy. Hormone therapy is a form of systemic therapy that blocks or removes hormones from the body to slow down or stop the growth of cancer cells. Hormone therapy is used to fight various forms of cancers, but is mostly used for breast cancer and prostate cancer (Cancer Treatment Center of America n.d.) This therapy usually involves taking medications that will prevent cancer cells from getting the hormones that they need to grow. With breast cancer there are two types of hormone therapies …show more content…
First he did the biopsy and removed his whole breast along with twenty lymph nodes, twelve cancerous. Then he began chemotherapy right away, lasting six months, and in those six months he was at home barely moving from his chair because of how weak and miserable he was. As the six months came to an end he began to do radiation which lasted six weeks, where he stayed up in Denver seeing his family only on the weekends. He had finished all of the treatments and started to feel well again and when his three month check up came around he was clear (Pevler, 2015). He had did a biopsy, chemotherapy, and radiation and his ten months of treatments were over. So with my uncles cancer he did three of the four treatment because of how far along his cancer was, but each treatment is different for someone
Radiation is usually fairly tolerable and always most patients to remain living the same way that they were before the treatments. The most common side effect that patients get is some moderate fatigue and skin damage or some irritation. The skin damage will begin within the first few weeks of treatment, and is usually gone after one to two weeks after the completion of the treatment. A long-term side effect can be changes in the texture and color of the skin, and the shape of the breast that received radiation may also change. Some other side effects that a patient could have is diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, mouth sores, and there is also hair loss (OncoLink, 2016). Each patient is different and may have many of these or maybe none, it all just depends on the patient and the radiation that they took. One of the last options for treatment of male breast cancer is hormone therapy. Hormone therapy is a form of systemic therapy that blocks or removes hormones from the body to slow down or stop the growth of cancer cells. Hormone therapy is used to fight various forms of cancers, but is mostly used for breast cancer and prostate cancer (Cancer Treatment Center of America n.d.) This therapy usually involves taking medications that will prevent cancer cells from getting the hormones that they need to grow. With breast cancer there are two types of hormone therapies …show more content…
First he did the biopsy and removed his whole breast along with twenty lymph nodes, twelve cancerous. Then he began chemotherapy right away, lasting six months, and in those six months he was at home barely moving from his chair because of how weak and miserable he was. As the six months came to an end he began to do radiation which lasted six weeks, where he stayed up in Denver seeing his family only on the weekends. He had finished all of the treatments and started to feel well again and when his three month check up came around he was clear (Pevler, 2015). He had did a biopsy, chemotherapy, and radiation and his ten months of treatments were over. So with my uncles cancer he did three of the four treatment because of how far along his cancer was, but each treatment is different for someone