You need to know about breast cancer duration of treatment and prevention

VIDEO: On how to prevent Breast cancer

Breast cancer prevention starts with healthy habits — such as limiting alcohol and staying physically active. Understand what you can do to reduce your breast cancer risk. Lifestyle changes have been shown in studies to decrease breast cancer risk even in high-risk women.

A Breast Cancer Treatment That Takes Less Than a Week?

When it comes to radiation therapy for breast cancer, doctors usually beam ionizing radiation at the entire, affected breast. This method, called whole breast irradiation (WBI), isn’t without some problems:
• Healthy tissues and organs get damaged.
• The lengthy treatment time (roughly five to seven weeks) disrupts patients’ lives.
But there’s a relatively new treatment on the block, and it solves both of these issues. Its name isSAVI.
SAVI is classified as breast brachytherapy, which is a type of APBI (accelerated partial breast irradiation).
Now you may be thinking, Say whaaaat? So let me put it this way: APBI is a speedy form of radiation therapy that only targets part of the breast — the part affected by cancer. Breast brachytherapy is a type of that; it spreads radiation from inside the breast.

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