Breast Cancer Treatment Improving

October brings annual awareness around breast cancer, a disease that brings close to 400,000 new cases each year.  Women getting annual screenings and early diagnosis helps with quicker and successful treatment.  Dr. Blanche Mavromatis, Medical Oncologist at UPMC Western Maryland, tells WCBC treatments have become individualized…

“Breast cancer today has become very personalized and very targeted. We have better ways to screen individual patients and the treatments have also come a long way.”

New treatment modalities continue to emerge to target the disease…

“In estrogen-positive which is the most common type of breast cancer we have new endocrine treatments called SERDS, very exciting to have this third-generation anti-estrogen pills that help lower the risk and help control the disease.”