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Breast cancer patients that have breast implants often worry how the implants will affect her radiation treatment. Dr. Harness explains what types of radiation therapy would work for a woman who has breast implants and what the procedure looks like in the video below: Jay K Harness, MD: Can a woman use radiation if she [...]
If you’ve been recommended whole breast radiation therapy, this means you’ll be receiving radiation on the entire breast. You’ll be treated for 5 weeks and you may experience some fatigue and a burn on your skin. Dr. Harness explains whole breast radiation therapy and what to expect in this video. Summary: If you’ve been recommended [...]
If breast cancer is going to reoccur, it is typically in the same neighborhood as the first tumor, therefore you often only need radiation in that particluar area. This procedure if called partial breast radiation, because only one area of the brest is being targeted. Dr. Harness explains in further detail. Summary: The theory of [...]
Dr. Harness discusses the use of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy, or IORT, in breast cancer treatment. Learn more about IORT and where it is being used. Jay K. Harness, MD: IORT radiation therapy has been around for a longtime, but the resurgence in the interest in intraoperative radiation therapy is the fact that we now have [...]
Learn about radiation therapy for breast cancer patients from Dr. Harness, a leading breast cancer expert. Jay K. Harness, MD: Radiation therapy of the breast is an important tool in the local regional control of breast cancer. Now there are different kinds of radiation therapy. One kind of radiation therapy involves treating the entire [...]
Dr. Margileth explains how the duration of radiation therapy is determined for patients that underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy and mastectomy. David A. Margileth, M.D.: One of the advances in breast cancer that has taken place in the last 10 years or so is the concept of neoadjuvant chemotherapy or giving the therapy prior to surgery to shrink [...]
One question that is frequently asked by women living with breast cancer is: “how will radiation therapy affect my skin?” Medical oncologist David A. Margileth explains the relationship between radiation therapy and cosmetic changes in the appearance of skin. David A. Margileth, M.D.: The skin changes that one can see after radiation therapy actually vary quite [...]
Learn from Dr. Margileth about the circumstances that necessitate post-mastectomy radiation treatment for breast cancer patients. David A. Margileth, M.D.: When the choice for primary therapy for breast cancer is mastectomy, one of the dilemmas has been when should those patients receive post-mastectomy radiation? The two characteristics of the primary tumor that would almost always mandate [...]
Dr. Margileth explains that radiation-caused recurrence of cancer is very rare, and usually appears in the form of an angiosarcoma. Since recurrence because of radiation is so uncommon, lumpectomy and radiation are still a standard form of treatment for breast cancer. David A. Margileth, MD: When lumpectomy and radiation therapy was developed for breast cancer, [...]
After a breast cancer diagnosis, a doctor will decide whether or not a patient needs radiation therapy. If a patient chooses to have a mastectomy, they will, in most cases, not need radiation therapy. Whereas a patient who chooses to have a lumpectomy may need radiation therapy. Learn more from Dr. Lawenda in the video [...]
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