Breast cancer treatments
Breast cancer treatment can be given both locally, including surgery and radiation therapy, and systemically, including chemotherapy, targeted therapy and hormone therapy. Treatment plans are individualised to the patient. For early breast cancer, surgery to remove the cancer is usually the first step.
Read more about the different breast cancer treatments here:
Advanced breast cancer (ABC)
Advanced breast cancer can also be treated locally or systemically, using radiation, endocrine therapy, chemotherapy and targeted therapies. Surgery is not typically used, as tumours are not confined to one site.
Read more about advanced breast cancer.
