Treatment of excess alert for breast cancer

Experts have warned that today thousands of women with breast cancer are being subjected to excessive treatment to combat the disease, and that many of the therapies they prescribe are not necessary and do not improve expectations survival of these patients.

These statements have been made by experts in the field during the celebration in San Antonio (Texas, USA) of a Breast Cancer Conference, but is the second time that U.S. experts are speaking out against the overtreatment that undergoes Many women diagnosed with this disease.

According to these researchers, but therapies that help patients overcome the disease, when used in excess, and unnecessarily cause them traumatic experience side effects with 'alive.' Unwanted symptoms associated with this type of treatment worsen quality of life of sick, and radiotherapy , for example, may increase the risk of developing another type of malignant tumor.

In that conference between the conclusions of several studies presented include: it is not convenient to use radiotherapy in early stages of cancer , when the patient has metastasized the cancer surgery may be unnecessary, and that the chemotherapy could be less aggressive standard treatment indicated in breast cancer.

Last October, the American Society of Oncology published a list of five therapies and tests used in cancer cases, and in certain cases not beneficial or are not justified. In this regard, experts say their responsibility as physicians is to provide patients the best possible treatment for each case, and this includes avoiding tests and therapies whose risks outweigh the potential benefits