Treatment options and Medicines for breast cancer?

Multiple treatment options are available to treat breast cancer. But modality to treat breast cancer depends upon certain factors like the nature of cancer and spreading area of cancer. It has often been found that breast cancer-affected patients need a combination of treatment modalities instead of a single treatment. A team of doctors with a specialization in oncology, surgery, and radiology worked together to make the treatment plan for the patient for the best treatment outcome. However, the following are the different breast cancer treatment options available in medical science.

Surgery

The cancerous tissue removes out through surgical intervention.

Chemotherapy

Specific medication prescribed for shrinking or killing cancerous growth. The mode of administration of these medications may be oral or injectable or both.

Hormonal therapy

Hormonal therapy restricts the growth of cancerous tissue
Biological therapy
Modulate the body’s immune system functioning, so that it can fight against cancer cells or minimize the side effect burden of provided cancer treatments.

Radiation therapy

Like X-ray some high-energy beams of ray transmitted for killing the cancer cells.

Alternative treatment

The alternative treatment options are yet standardized for cancer treatment. But often different alternative and complementary medicines are used as adjuvant therapy to improve the applied standard treatment outcomes. For example, yoga, meditation, and vitamins, and herbal supplements are some popular alternative treatment options for breast cancer. But it is always advisable to talk with your doctor before introducing any complementary or alternative medicine to check the safety and tolerability, as the scientific evidence for safety and efficacy of such treatment modalities are debatable.

The choice of treatment

Only breast cancer specialists have the authenticate right to select the best treatment option/s for patients. The selection of treatment is not an easy task. Evaluation of type and stage of cancer is very important to select the treatment option.
Cancer patients often take a second opinion from another cancer specialist before starting the treatment. The objective of taking a second opinion is to verify and choose the correct treatment option.

Drugs available for breast cancers are as follows

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• Abemaciclib is approved for metastatic breast cancer which can spread out to other adjacent tissues. This drug is also used along with hormone therapy and chemotherapy to prevent the worsening of the patient's condition.
• Abraxane is the brand name of Paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation. It is usually given in case of relapsed or metastatic breast cancer which spreads after treating with another chemotherapeutic agent.
• Ado-trastuzumab emtansine is the medicine used as adjuvant therapy in early-stage breast cancer removal through surgical intervention. And also prescribed for treating metastatic breast cancer.
• Everolimus is used as a combination therapy with other medications to treat breast cancer.
• Alpelisib is prescribed for menopausal women suffering from breast cancer and the condition becomes worse due to prescribed hormonal therapy.
• Anastrozole is prescribed for menopausal women suffering from early-stage breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer, and even advance staged breast cancer.
• Pamidronate disodium is a chemotherapeutic drug prescribed for metastatic breast cancer affected patients and cancer cells spread to the bone.
• Exemestane is used for both advanced and early-stage breast cancer with estrogenic receptor-positive.
• Atezolizumab is used for patients with locally advanced metastatic nature and cannot be removed through surgical intervention.
Apart from the above-mentioned medications following are approve of the medication for breast cancer treatment.
• Capecitabine
• Cyclophosphamide
• Docetaxel
• Doxorubicin Hydrochloride
• Ellence (Epirubicin Hydrochloride)
• Enhertu (Fam-Trastuzumab Deruxtecan-nxki)
• Epirubicin Hydrochloride
• Eribulin Mesylate
• Everolimus
• Exemestane
• 5-FU (Fluorouracil Injection)
• Fam-Trastuzumab Deruxtecan-nxki
• Fareston (Toremifene)
• Faslodex (Fulvestrant)
• Femara (Letrozole)
• Fluorouracil Injection
• Fulvestrant
• Gemcitabine Hydrochloride
• Gemzar (Gemcitabine Hydrochloride)
• Goserelin Acetate
• Halaven (Eribulin Mesylate)
• Herceptin Hylecta (Trastuzumab and Hyaluronidase-oysk)
• Herceptin (Trastuzumab)
• Ibrance (Palbociclib)
• Infugem (Gemcitabine Hydrochloride)
• Ixabepilone
• Ixempra (Ixabepilone)
• Kadcyla (Ado-Trastuzumab Emtansine)
• Keytruda (Pembrolizumab)
• Kisqali (Ribociclib)
• Lapatinib Ditosylate
• Letrozole
• Lynparza (Olaparib)
• Megestrol Acetate
• Methotrexate Sodium
• Neratinib Maleate
• Nerlynx (Neratinib Maleate)
• Olaparib
• Paclitaxel
• Paclitaxel Albumin-stabilized Nanoparticle Formulation
• Palbociclib
• Pamidronate Disodium
• Pembrolizumab
• Perjeta (Pertuzumab)
• Pertuzumab
• Pertuzumab, Trastuzumab, and Hyaluronidase-zzxf
• Phesgo (Pertuzumab, Trastuzumab, and Hyaluronidase-zzxf)
• Piqray (Alpelisib)
• Ribociclib
• Sacituzumab Govitecan-hziy
• Talazoparib Tosylate
• Talzenna (Talazoparib Tosylate)
• Tamoxifen Citrate
• Taxotere (Docetaxel)
• Tecentriq (Atezolizumab)
• Thiotepa
• Toremifene
• Trastuzumab
• Trastuzumab and Hyaluronidase-oysk
• Trexall (Methotrexate Sodium)
• Trodelvy (Sacituzumab Govitecan-hziy)
• Tucatinib
• Tukysa (Tucatinib)
• Tykerb (Lapatinib Ditosylate)
• Verzenio (Abemaciclib)
• Vinblastine Sulfate
• Xeloda (Capecitabine)
• Zoladex (Goserelin Acetate)

References:
Breast Cancer medicines at world Pharma Network
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/basic_info/treatment.htm
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/breast