Category: Education

Anastrozole is a type of hormone therapy. It is a treatment for breast cancer that is hormone sensitive.

What is Letrozole Letrozole is a hormonal therapy drug used to treat breast cancer in women who have been through the menopause. Sometimes it is used to treat breast cancer in men.

Fulvestrant “the final overall survival results of the phase III SWOG S0226 trial show that the addition of first-line fulvestrant to anastrozole was associated with improved overall survival in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive metastatic breast cancer.” https://ascopost.com/issues/may-25-2019/fulvestrantanastrozole-in-metastatic-breast-cancer/ What is Fulvestrant? Fulvestrant is a hormone treatment for post menopausal women with locally advanced or advanced breast cancer.

Anastrozole Anastrozole is an Aromatase inhibitors which is a type of hormone therapy drug used to treat breast cancer in women who have gone through a natural menopause (when periods stop). It is a treatment for breast cancer that is hormone sensitive.

Has your treatment line changed since you completed SBC & Me last year? Not yet but could be in next few weeks How many changes to treatment have you had?

Has your treatment line changed since you completed SBC & Me last year? Yes How many changes to treatment have you had?

Tamoxifen Tamoxifen is a hormone therapy for breast cancer in both women and men. It lowers the risk of early breast cancer coming back (recurring) after surgery or developing in the other breast.

What is Trastuzumab Emtansine Trastuzumab emtansine is a type of targeted cancer drug. It is also known by its brand name Kadcyla and TDM1.

What is Everolimus Everolimus is a targeted cancer drug that blocks cancer growth. You might have everolimus if you have advanced breast cancer that is hormone receptor positive.

What is Pertuzamab Pertuzumab is a targeted cancer drug and is also known by its brand name Perjeta. What is it?It is a treatment for breast cancer.

This week's blog is about Ribociclib in the treatment of secondary breast cancer. 

What has your experience of Ribociclib been?

When were you diagnosed with secondary breast cancer? I was diagnosed with SBC on 16th March 2020.

This week’s blog is about Palbociclib in the treatment of Secondary Breast Cancer.

What has your experience of Palbociclib been?

You may have steroids as part of your treatment or to control symptoms and help you to feel better. Steroids may be given: with certain chemotherapy drugs to prevent an allergic reaction or to reduce sickness to reduce swelling and control pain when there is a secondary cancer in the liver to reduce pressure and relieve headaches and sickness when there is a secondary cancer in the brain.

Thermal ablation is used to treat different types of cancer. It uses extreme temperatures (thermal) to destroy (ablate) cancer cells.