Author/Editor		Čufer, Tanja
Title		Rak dojke
Type		članek
Source		Medicus
Vol. and No.		Letnik 10, št. 2
Publication year		2001
Volume		str. 173-8
Language		cro
Abstract		Breast cancer is the most frequent malignant disease in women, with increasing incidence. However, the mortality of breast cancer has started to decrease. The reasons are better early detection of the disease and more efficacious treat ment. The breast cancer can be detected in an early stage, without being palpable yet, when the possibilities of curing are great. Early detection is performed by regular check-ups and mammography tests of the breast. Follow-ups through a number of years have confirmed the rationality of organized check-ups in groups of women with great risk of the disease. Today the organized control is needed for women aged from 50 to 69 years, when the risk is the highest. The treatment of breast cancer is multidisciplinary. The combination of surgical treatment, radiation and systemic treatment ensures the best results. The type and order of particular treatment procedures must be planned within an interdisciplinary team with strictly individual approach. Along with specific treatment, equally important is also a regular systemic one. New, efficacious drugs for symptomatic treatment are emerging, as are for example bisphosphonates, which present a great advantage in the quality of life of such patients. Soon we are expecting the development of new biological medications for cancer, that will, in combination with other, standard procedures, further improve the efficacy and thus enable curing and with it also a full involvement in normal, everyday life for a grow ing number of women with breast cancer.
Descriptors		BREAST NEOPLASMS BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION RISK FACTORS MASTECTOMY