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As Dr. Harness explains, the Ki-67 test and Oncotype DX test are two very different things. The Ki-67 test helps doctors determine how rapidly cells are growing and, in turn, how the patient will respond to chemotherapy. The Oncotype DX test is a gene analysis test and helps doctors determine whether or not a patient [...]
Adjuvant therapy is treatment that done in addition to surgery. Chemotherapy and anti-hormonal therapy are examples of adjuvant therapy. Dr. Harness explains more about adjuvant therapy in the video below. Jay K. Harness, MD: What is adjuvant therapy? The word adjuvant or “adjunctive to” means therapy that is in addition to the surgery that I [...]
Dr. Harness talks about chemotherapy treatment and explains what type of breast cancer patients need it. Learn more about chemotherapy treatment in this video. Dr. Jay K. Harness, MD: So what do my patients dread the most? Answer, chemotherapy. When I think of my new patients coming in, my newly diagnosed patients, it is almost [...]
A huge advancement in the treatment of breast cancer has been the development of ports, or intravenous access devices that allow for easier administration of chemotherapy. Dr. Margileth addresses the risks and benefits of chemotherapy ports in this video. David A. Margileth, M.D.: Having been around the oncology world for several decades now, one of the [...]
In this video, Dr. Jay K. Harness explains that post menopausal women benefit from chemotherapy. Dr. Jay K. Harness: I often receive questions from post-menopausal women about whether they are going to need chemotherapy or not? And one piece of good news for most post-menopausal women is the fact that they are [...]
In this video, Dr. Margileth talks about breast cancer chemotherapy and how there is no need to alter daily routines. David Margileth, MD: As long as a patient is feeling well, they can continue with their daily activities while on radiation treatments. Your immune system would not get affected so you do [...]
Dr. Afshin Forouzannia talks to us about patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy and how they shouldn’t be prescribed antioxidants. Afshin Forouzannia: The role of antioxidants in radiation treatments has not been clearly defined but radiation works by creating oxidized free radicals, which in turn damage the cancer cell and the DNA [...]
In this video, Dr. Margileth talks about patients varying feelings towards seeing an oncologist with each chemotherapy treatment. David Margileth, MD: The question about the frequency of seeing the oncologists with patients on chemotherapy is dependent on several variables. From my own point of view, if we have a patient on a very [...]
Learn from Dr. David A. Margileth about the treatment options for chemotherapy patients that experience nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. David A. Margileth, MD: As chemotherapy has improved over the past 5 or 10 years, one of the most important improvements has been in the control of nausea and vomiting. We now have very good medicine [...]
In this video, Dr. Harness discusses the new T-DM1 “smart bomb” drug and explains how this breakthrough could affect treatment of breast cancer. Watch this video to learn more about the future of the T-DM1 drug and other breast cancer research. Jay K. Harness, MD: The American Society of Clinical Oncology is holding its annual [...]
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