Treatment options are getting better all the time. Hear Dr. Alison Laidely, breast surgeon, talk about the changes in treatment options and what’s available today.
Video Transcript:
There have been a lot of advances in breast cancer since the ‘70s where women really traditionally up until the ‘70s had to have very radical disfiguring surgery. And, over the last 30, 40 years through good clinical trials, we’ve been able to minimize surgery, minimize complications and yet have excellent cancer care.
We do more focused surgery on the breast with lumpectomy in properly selected patients. We do focused evaluation of the lymph nodes and the axilla with doing the sentinel node mapping procedure and which is a huge advance in terms of lymph node surgery for patients. And, it just makes sense that we can focus the radiation in the tissue that’s at risk of recurrence by doing partial breast irradiation. And, the ease of delivery of partial breast with a MammoSite catheter just makes it a home run for properly selected patients.
