Mr Barkerji discusses how modern breast cancer treatment is coordinated by a multidisciplinary team approach.
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Mr Barker, what's the treatment, the modern treatment for confirmed breast cancer? So modern treatment involves multi modality. In the past it used to just be surgery where patients have the lump taken out, often mastectomy, but with modern treatment of breast cancer, surgery does play an important role. Often chemotherapy, in some patients chemotherapy before the surgery to shrink the lump where you convert patients that did mastectomy to just having a lumpectomy and radiotherapy also plays a role. And if the cancer is estrogen positive, then endocrine treatment for between five to 10 years. And the changes of recent is that there are more and more options to treat patients. And generally, outcome for breast cancer is much better than what we read in the textbooks. Thank you.
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