Is chemotherapy right for you?
Not everyone with a breast cancer diagnosis will require chemotherapy. Without systemic therapy, local therapies for cancer, such as radiation and surgery, are frequently beneficial.
You might require several rounds of chemotherapy if you have been diagnosed with bigger tumors whose cells have migrated to adjacent lymph nodes. Chemotherapy is used in these situations as adjuvant therapy, or to stop cancer from coming back after the tumor has been removed.
If you’ve been told that you have stage 3 cancer with bigger tumors, you might start systemic therapy without having surgery. Neoadjuvant therapy [1] is what this is known as.
Despite the fact that chemotherapy may seem frightening, there have been considerable advancements in the way side effects are handled. Chemotherapy is now a lot more bearable than it formerly was.