Breast Cancer – Fractionated-Dose Chemotherapy
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Fractionated-Dose Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer Treatment
Your physicians at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) may recommend chemotherapy as part of your individualized breast cancer treatment plan. Chemotherapy can be utilized in a number of breast cancer treatment plans. It can be delivered to reduce the size of your tumor before surgery, as a primary treatment for metastatic cancer and after surgery to prevent recurrence.
If chemotherapy is a part of your treatment plan, we will do everything in our power to help make your chemotherapy as tolerable as possible. Fractionated-dose chemotherapy is one delivery option that may be available to you, depending on the type and stage of your breast cancer and the size of your tumor.
Fractionated-dose chemotherapy is an option the physicians at CTCA have offered for several years. With fractionated-dose chemotherapy, your full chemotherapy treatment is given in smaller amounts over a number of days rather than in a single, larger dose, as with standard chemotherapy. We believe that fractionated-dose chemotherapy can make chemotherapy more tolerable by reducing some of the unpleasant side effects normally associated with this breast cancer treatment.
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