Education Categories:

• General Information About Breast Cancer
• Stages of Breast Cancer
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer
• Recurrent Breast Cancer
• Treatment Option Overview
• Treatment Options by Stage
• Treatment Options for Inflammatory Breast Cancer
• Treatment Options for Recurrent Breast Cancer
• Overview of Prevention
• Breast Cancer Prevention
• What is Screening?
• Mammograms
• What is a Mammogram?

Category: Treatment Options for Recurrent Breast Cancer

Treatment Options for Recurrent Breast Cancer

Treatment of recurrent breast cancer (cancer that has come back after treatment) in the breast or chest wall may include the following:

• Surgery (radical or modified radical mastectomy), radiation therapy, or both.
• Systemic chemotherapy or hormone therapy.
• A clinical trial of trastuzumab (Herceptin) combined with systemic chemotherapy.

Acknowledgement given to the National Cancer Institute as originator of the information provided herein, with the NCI web site www.cancer.gov as the source.