The Breast Cancer
Taking Control The Breast Cancer More than two million women living in the United States today have been treated for breast cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Fortunately, we live at a time in medical history when increasingly sophisticated, lifesaving treatments are changing the course of this disease for hundreds of thousands of women. Just a handful of years ago, some of the most remarkable advances in surgery, radiation, and anticancer drugs were not yet widely available. Now, for most women, a breast cancer diagnosis may prove in hindsight to be a rough bump in the road, while the length of that road ultimately remains unchanged. For those living with metastatic breast cancer, an expanding list of treatments may be life-extending, also. Yet whether breast cancer treatments have been tested over decades or emerge as new stars, they may take a heavy toll on a woman’s body. “In barely a year, I’ve aged a decade,” one breast cancer survivor ...