Breast Cancer Questions

Breast cancer diagnosis, treatment options, side-effects questions answered.

This app contains the most comprehensive questions and the standard NIH/NCI authoritative answers to every fundamental breast cancer related question you may have. The FAQ like Q&A app is extremely simple to use and you can simply search for your question and touch the question that best matches what you are looking for. If you do not find the the question you are looking for, simply email us at: personalizedcancer@gmail.com

and we will add your question along with an expert answer.

This is simply the number 1 breast cancer application that contains answers to your breast cancer questions at your finger tips. The application is completely free to use and intended solely to be helpful to breast cancer patients and their loved ones trying to understand their breast cancer diagnosis such as the type, staging and grading, tests including hormone receptor tests, treatment options including surgical options, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, 5-year survival rates based on the diagnosis. It also contains questions to help facilitate discussions with your doctors about surgeries, diagnosis and treatment plans.

Questions & topics include:

What is cancer?

What is a Tumor?

Different types of tumors

Ductal or lobular carcinomas

Hormone receptor status

Lab tests (such as hormone receptor or HER2) determine breast cancer treatment options

Triple negative breast cancer

Gene expression (Oncotype DX, MammaPrint) tests

Breast cancer’s grade

Breast cancer stages

Metastatic breast cancer

5-year survival rates for breast cancer

Questions to ask your doctor about breast cancer tests

Questions should I ask my doctor about my breast cancer diagnosis

Questions should I ask my doctor about breast cancer treatment plans

Surgical options available to treat breast cancer

Questions to ask my doctor about breast cancer surgery options

Questions to ask my doctor during my breast cancer treatment

Questions to ask my doctor after my breast cancer treatment

Choosing between breast conserving surgery and mastectomy

Surgery to remove lymph nodes

Breast reconstruction options after my surgery to treat cancer

Surgeries a viable treatment option for advanced breast cancer

Wire localization to guide surgery

Radiation therapy be used to treat breast cancer

Types of radiation therapy are available to treat breast cancer

Brachytherapy

Which chemotherapy drugs are used for breast cancer

How is chemotherapy given

Side effects of chemotherapy drugs

What are the hormone therapy treatment options to treat breast cancer?

Side-effects of hormone therapy?

Drugs that block estrogen receptors?

Treatments to lower estrogen levels?

Targeted therapies for treating breast cancers

Targeted therapy options for HER2-positive breast cancer, hormone receptor positive breast cancer, women with BRCA gene mutations, avPIK3CA gene mutation

Immunotherapy for breast cancer and how does it work

Immunotherapy treatment options for breast cancer

Side effects of immunotherapy treatments

Side-effects of targeted therapies

Treatment health care team

Second opinion before I start my treatment

Questions to ask my doctor about hormone therapy, chemotherapy or targeted therapy

Questions to ask your doctor about breast reconstruction after possible mastectomy

Nutrition during breast cancer treatment

Follow-up care or checkups I need after my breast cancer treatment

Sources of support after being diagnosed with breast cancer

Information about relevant cancer treatment research or clinical trials

Aromatase Inhibitor

Biopsy

Breast-sparing surgery

Clinical trial

CT scan

Ductal carcinoma in situ

Early-stage breast cancer

Estrogen

External radiation therapy

Lumpectomy

Lymph node

Lymphedema

Malignant

Mammogram

Mastectomy

Medical oncologist

Menopause

Menstrual period

Who is a plastic surgeon?

What is plastic surgery?

Progesterone

Radiation oncologist

Reconstructive surgeon

Registered dietitian

What is a segmental mastectomy?

What is Tamoxifen?

What is a Total mastectomy?