General Questions:

What is breast cancer?

Who gets breast cancer and what are the risk factors?

What are signs and symptoms of breast cancer, and how is it diagnosed?

Staging: What happens after diagnosis?

How do you treat breast cancer?

- Surgery (lumpectomy vs. mastectomy)

- Radiation Therapy (the basics)

    - External Beam Radiation including IMRT

    - Balloon Brachytherapy

    - Radiation after mastectomy

    - Side effects of breast radiation

- Chemotherapy or Hormone Therapy

How do I make an appointment to have radiation at ARC?

Other Breast Cancer/Radiation Related Topics:

Balloon Brachytherapy for Breast Cancer

The Radiation Treatment Process

The physicians at Advanced Radiation Centers of New York are leaders in the treatment of breast cancer using the latest technologies in the fight against breast cancer. These technologies include 3D-conformal radiation therapy and intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).

Radiation Therapy is used in conjunction with surgery and sometimes chemotherapy or hormone therapy to treat breast cancer. Specifically, radiation is used to treat the breast following a lumpectomy, the procedure which has removed the tumor and cancer cells that were either evident on a mammography, ultrasound, MRI or were palpable on a breast examination. Once the surgery has been performed, radiation is given to “mop-up” any stray cells that may be left behind. Radiation therapy is also used in certain cases following a mastectomy.  Please see the following sections, which discuss the various forms of radiation treatment options for breast cancer.

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