ABCDE steps to prevent heart disease in breast cancer survivors
Autor: | Jay R. Harris, JoAnne M. Foody, Javid Moslehi, Christine Unitt, Ann H. Partridge, Kamaneh Montazeri |
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Rok vydání: | 2014 |
Předmět: |
Oncology
Male medicine.medical_specialty Heart Diseases medicine.medical_treatment Breast Neoplasms Breast Neoplasms Male Breast cancer Risk Factors Physiology (medical) Internal medicine medicine Humans Survivors skin and connective tissue diseases Cause of death business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Incidence Lumpectomy Smoking Cancer Chemoradiotherapy medicine.disease United States Radiation therapy Hormonal therapy Female Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Mastectomy |
Zdroj: | Circulation. 130(18) |
ISSN: | 1524-4539 |
Popis: | Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer diagnosed in women. Of every 8 women, 1 woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. In 2013, more than 230 000 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States alone, resulting in nearly 40 000 deaths. Breast cancer can also occur in men, although the incidence is much lower, with a total of 2240 men diagnosed in 2013 (accounting for less than 1% of all breast cancers). Over the past 2 decades, death resulting from breast cancer has been declining each year. This decrease in mortality is due in part to improvements in cancer treatment. These treatments have come about as a result of collaborations among physicians in various specialties. These physicians include medical oncologists (who give systemic treatments like chemotherapy and hormonal therapy), surgeons (who perform surgery such as mastectomy and lumpectomy), and radiation oncologists (who treat patients with radiation therapy). Radiation therapy, in particular, has increasingly become an important part of management of most patients with breast cancer. Radiation therapy has been demonstrated not only to prevent recurrence of cancer in the breast or chest wall area but also to improve long-term survival in women. In addition, radiation therapy allows women to undergo a less radical form of surgery in which the breast tissue is conserved, thus improving body image for breast cancer survivors without compromising survival. As a result of this progress in treatment and improved detection of early breast cancer, in 2012, there were nearly 3 million breast cancer survivors in the United States alone, a number that will increase in the coming years. Women who survive breast cancer may face many health challenges, but the number 1 cause of death in breast cancer survivors (and, in fact, all women) remains heart disease. Unfortunately, although systemic … |
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