The Most Common Cancer in the UK: Breast Cancer

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Being the most common cancer in the UK, breast cancer affects about 48,000 women a year, it affects mostly women over the age of 50, however younger women and in some cases even men can be affected by the disease.
Multidisciplinary team or MDT are there for cancer patients to provide them with the best possible care and treatment for each individual patient. The MDT team consists of a specialist cancer surgeon, an oncologist, a radiologist, a pathologist, a radiographer, a reconstructive surgeon and a specialist nurse. As well as these specialised people there may also be a need for an occupational therapist, dietician and a physiotherapist, this all is based upon different people’s needs and circumstances.
Doctors have to consider the following things when treating a cancer patient:
- The stage and grade of your cancer
- General health
- If you have been through the menopause

There are a few different ways you can treat breast cancer, they are as followed:
- Surgery
- Chemotherapy
- Radiotherapy
- Herceptin
- Hormonal therapies

Surgery:
Surgery isn’t always the first option that is given to patients however it is an option. Some surgeries involve removing the lymph nodes under the armpit or the doctors will do checks on them to make sure they are all as they should be. Before undergoing surgery for breast cancer doctors will find out whether or not they need to remove the whole breast or just some, this depends on the size of the cancer and how bad it is as well as its position. In some cases it is advised that women are given treatment with hormonal therapy or chemotherapy to try and shrink the cancer before undergoing surgery. There is no cure for breast cancer yet, but there are a couple of things that can reduce the ris...

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... the second dose this decreases to 1% of children who still remain at risk.
A child aged between 6 and 13 months who is exposed to the measles virus is normally given the MMR vaccination so that it protects them from developing measles. A further 2 doses should be given if the child is given the vaccine before their first birthday which should also be given at around 13 months of age and before they start school.
A child aged under 6 months who has had a mother who has had measles in the past is usually immune to the infection as the mothers protective antibodies will have been passed to the baby while in the womb.

Works Cited

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Measles/Pages/Treatment.aspx http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Bulimia/Pages/Treatment.aspx http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinformation/Cancertypes/Breast/Treatingbreastcancer/Surgery/Surgeryforbreastcancer.aspx

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