When choosing a method of treatment of breast cancer takes into account the type of cancer, stage, sensitivity of cancer cells to hormones, the general health of the patient and her personal wishes. In most cases, the treatment requires surgery in combination with other therapies such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy Hormone therapy - is it possible to fool nature?   or radiotherapy.

Surgery

• Removal of the tumor from the breast (lumpectomy). During this operation, the surgeon removes the cancer and some of the adjacent tissues. Lumpectomy typically prescribed for small tumors, which are easily separated from the surrounding tissue.
• Removal of the breast (mastectomy). Mastectomy can be simple, which eliminates all of the breast tissue, or the radical - in this case, not only the breast is removed, but located underneath the arm, close to the chest, as well as the lymph nodes under the arm. Today, radical mastectomy do less and less. In some cases, mastectomy can leave the skin of the breast, which facilitates further operation for breast reconstruction.
• Removing one lymph node (sentinel lymph node biopsy). Cancer cells can spread to the breast tissue from a lymph node, which is called the sentinel node. If cancer is suspected, the doctor reveals lymph node Lymph nodes - what keeps our immune system Which can be sentinel; it was removed and examined for the presence of cancer cells. If they are not detected, the probability of detection of cancer in the lymph nodes of other minimal, and further operations are usually not required. When breast cancer begins to spread to other parts of the body, and sentinel lymph node biopsy.
• Removing several lymph nodes (axillary lymph nodes dissection). If during a biopsy cancer cells were found in one of the axillary lymph nodes, the physician may decide to remove the axillary lymph nodes, and other. However, following a lumpectomy, with the proviso that the cancer cells are hit a few axillary chemotherapy are equally effective. Moreover, it avoids many of the side effects of axillary node dissection.
• Removal of axillary nodes may be necessary if the sentinel lymph node, comprising cancer cells, was found after mastectomy and / or if the axillary lymph nodes Axillary lymph nodes - signals about trouble in the mammary glands   They increased so that they can be felt on physical examination.

Radiation

In radiation therapy to kill cancer cells using ionizing radiation. The most common radiotherapy Radiotherapy in cancer treatment: irradiation aid   carried out with the help of a special device, directing the study on the affected areas of the body (external radiation therapy). But sometimes radiation therapy is carried out by placing radioactive materials inside the body (brachytherapy).

External radiation therapy is commonly used after lumpectomy for cancer treatment in the early stages. Sometimes it is also prescribed after mastectomy and for large tumors. At negative results of sentinel lymph node biopsy using radiotherapy significantly reduced the likelihood of the spread of cancer in the axillary lymph nodes and other tissues.

The most common side effect of radiation therapy is reddish rash on the skin areas to which radiation is directed. Breast tissue resulting from radiotherapy may become inflamed and / or to become more solid. Occasionally encountered are more serious side effects, such as tissue swelling arm (lymphedema), damage ribs or lungs of the nerves.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy destroys cancer cells with the help of medication. This type of treatment is often prescribed if there is a greater likelihood of cancer recurrence and / or its spread to other tissues. This adjuvant systemic chemotherapy.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy may be needed before the surgery when the tumor is large. Its goal - to reduce the size of the tumor, which facilitate the operation. It can also increase the chance of a full recovery.

Chemotherapy is also assigned the later stages of cancer, when it spreads to other parts of the body. With its help, doctors try to control the disease and reduce its symptoms.

Side effects of chemotherapy depend on using any drugs the therapy. The most common ones are: hair loss, nausea, vomiting, lethargy, increased risk of certain infections.

The world of plants today are not fully understood. Among the huge number of plants with medicinal properties, there are others that can affect the hormonal system of women. The structure mastodinon has six plants, could affect the synthesis and interaction of hormones.

Features action mastodinon tablets

The composition of the tablets mastodinon includes six herbal drugs and excipients, including milk sugar (lactose), potato starch and magnesium stearate. Due to the presence in tablets mastodinon milk sugar, receiving them is not suitable for all women.

This happens because some people missing or is produced in a small amount of enzyme which transforms milk sugar - lactase. It may be an innate feature of an organism, and may develop on the background of some diseases of the digestive system. In any case, if the intake of pills mastodinon appear abdominal pain Abdominal pain: Types and Symptoms   and bloating (flatulence) is a sense to switch to a reception mastodinon other dosage form - drops from which auxiliary substances is present only alcohol.

The rest of the pills and drops mastodinon identical. This drug inhibits the production of prolactin - a hormone of the pituitary gland, a large amount of blood which causes suppression of secretion of female sex hormone progesterone Progesterone - norm and pathology , Menstrual irregularities, infertility and various pathological changes in the mammary glands. As a result, in a woman's hormonal balance is restored, and the beginning of lesions regress.

When appointed mastodinon pills, and when they are contraindicated

Tablets mastodinon appoint a long-term treatments for the following violations of a woman's body:

• in the menstrual cycle and infertility which occur in deficiency of the second phase of the menstrual cycle, that is, when there is insufficient secretion of the female hormone progesterone;
• in diffuse mastopathy - uniform increase in mammary glands due to its proliferation and the formation of ducts at their ends of small cysts;
• premenstrual syndrome - a condition associated with a lack of progesterone in which a woman a month before menstruation changes drastically mental state (there is irritability Irritability - you try to control my temper , Aggressiveness), there are severe headaches, swelling, pain in the abdomen and in the breast.

Contraindications pills mastodinon are individual intolerance of components, pregnancy, breast-feeding Breastfeeding - a personal choice   chest and under the age of 12 years. Do not prescribe pills mastodinon well as enzymatic deficiency and breast cancer.

Side effects that may occur while taking pills and overdosing mastodinon

Mastodinon tablets are usually well tolerated, but still in its reception may have side effects. The major side effects associated with the presence tablets plants K. prostrata, which is the main active ingredient.

K. prostrata has long been used for the treatment of gynecological diseases, to this end, it has appointed Hippocrates. Then it became known and its side effects on the central nervous system, which manifests itself in the form of increased physical and mental excitability, headaches, confusion, sometimes the appearance of hallucinations. But a side effect of the therapeutic dose mastodinon occurs rarely.

Side effects tablets mastodinon the gastro-intestinal tract (abdominal pain and bloating) are associated with the presence in the dosage form of lactose - some women can not tolerate simple sugars because of the lack of enzymes for their processing.

Another side effect of the tablets mastodinon may be allergic reactions - the contents of six tablets herbal preparations significantly increases the risk of allergic reactions. The latter may take the form of allergic rashes, including urticaria, which in severe cases can proceed in angioneurotic edema subcutaneous tissue with grasping the larynx. This in turn can cause respiratory disorders. Therefore, the appearance of the first allergy tablet mastodinon overturned.

Mastodinon overdose usually does not happen.

Tablets mastodinon - it's effective, but fairly slow-acting homeopathic medicine. A dosage form in tablet form is preferred by many women as convenient to use.

Galina Romanenko