What Are the Side Effects of Hormone Therapy for Breast Cancer?
Hormone therapy for breast cancer commonly causes hot flashes, night sweats, joint and muscle aches, tiredness, vaginal dryness and mood changes. Less often, it can cause blood clots, thinning bones or changes in the womb lining. Most people get some of these, and few...
How Long Do You Need to Take Tamoxifen After Breast Cancer?
Most people take tamoxifen for five to ten years after a breast cancer diagnosis. Five years has been the standard for decades, and for many women with hormone receptor-positive cancer, going on to ten years lowers the chance of the cancer coming back. Which one is...
Radiation Therapy vs Surgery for Early-Stage Cancer
Here’s something that surprises people. For a lot of early-stage tumours, either one can cure the cancer. Surgery takes the tumour out, and a pathologist then studies it. Radiation destroys it from the outside, no cuts, and quite often the organ keeps working the way...
What Is SBRT? Benefits, Uses and Eligibility
SBRT, short for stereotactic body radiotherapy, is a way of giving very high doses of radiation to a tumour with pinpoint accuracy, in just one to five sessions instead of weeks of daily treatment. You may also hear it called SABR. Nothing is cut open, and it’s done...