Your doctor just told you that you have breast cancer. As the initial shock of your diagnosis begins to wear off, you and everyone around you are trying to figure out just exactly what your doctor meant when he/she said "You have Stage IIb breast cancer." What?!? Stage IIb? What does that mean?
Click here to learn about the different stages of breast cancer and what one might expect from each stage >>

Common Treatment
Chemotherapy. Radiation. Lumpectomy. Mastectomy. You may have heard these terms before. But now that you yourself might have to undergo these treatments, it all sounds Greek to you. And understandably so. That's why the BDF Team took the liberty of asking some questions regarding these treatments and getting the answers from medical professionals specializing in these treatments and passing them on to you.
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Glossary
Try as we might to present all this medical jargon in terms non-medical people can understand, the use of some terms couldn't be avoided.
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