Stage 2 Breast Cancer Survival Rate

Stage 2 cancer is further divided into two phases over the 2A and 2B. In stage 2A cancer one or more of the following applies after cancer occurs in the body, so if treatment is not successful, the cancer grows in the stage more and more dangerous.

On-stage cancer 2A occur:

The size of tumors 2 cm or less (cross section)
The cancer has spread to axillary lymph node 1-3.
A small number of cancer cells are found in lymph nodes milk through a sentinel lymph node biopsy.

In cancers occur in phase 2B:

tumors that occur in 2 to 5 cm, the tumor has spread to lymph nodes in the armpit, or
Tumors that occur more than 5 cm, and the tumor has not spread to axillary lymph nodes.

Phase 2 treatment for cancer can be done with the following:

- Is conservative surgery, with the aim of improving cancer alone, as well as some surrounding tissue, followed by lymph node dissection and radiation therapy.
- Implementation of a modified radical mastectomy, with or without surgery for reconstruction surgery.
- Performing a sentinel node biopsy followed by surgery.

The tumor has spread from 1 to 3 axillary lymph nodes and a small amount of cancer in the lymph nodes via sentinel node biopsy .
Tumors can be larger than 5 cm, but there is growing on the skin or chest wall. It also may have spread to lymph nodes.
Five-year survival for cancer is less than the cancer stage, 2, unfortunately, in a phase 1.Untuk cancer at stage 2A, five-year survival rates ranging from 88% to 92%. In 2BSelain that stage cancer, levels of five-year survival varies from 76% to 81%.

In most cases women who have stage 2 cancer surgically treated by mastectomy, although a lumpectomy may be an option. Usually doctors also remove lymph nodes and suggested chemotherapy and or radiation, endocrine therapy or targeted therapy after mastectomy or lumpectomy performed.

Adjuvant therapy or treatment provided to patients who have undergone surgery, aims to increase opportunities and higher life expectancy of healing may include:

1. Radiotherapy to the lymph nodes near the and chest wall after a modified radical mastectomy.
2. Undergoing systemic chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, hormone therapy or not.
3. Hormone therapy.
4. Undergoing clinical trials of trastuzumab or Herceptin in combination with systemic chemotherapy action.
5. Undergoing clinical trials of bisphosphonates in combination with chemotherapy or hormonal therapy. 


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