Treatments

In very rare cases, breast cancer treatment can cause a different cancer, usually many years later. This is called a secondary cancer. Learn which treatments can increase the risk, and questions to ask your care team.

Bone pain is very common in people living with cancer. Many things can cause bone pain during breast cancer treatment, including side effects of hormonal therapies and even cancer itself.

The goal of metastatic breast cancer treatment is to manage the disease while limiting side effects. Learn about available treatments and when they are used.

Fulvestrant (Faslodex) is a selective estrogen receptor degrader, or SERD, a type of hormonal therapy that breaks down estrogen receptors on hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer cells to keep them from growing.

Hormonal therapy, also called endocrine therapy, is medicine that blocks or lowers estrogen. This keeps estrogen from helping hormone receptor-positive breast cancer grow.

Selective estrogen receptor degraders, or SERDs, treat hormone receptor-positive breast cancer by breaking down estrogen receptors and preventing estrogen from helping the cancer to grow.

Scalp cooling is a therapy that helps reduce the risk of hair loss during chemotherapy treatment. Learn about different kinds of scalp cooling, insurance reimbursement, and more.

Hair loss can be a side effect of some breast cancer treatments, but there are ways to prepare for and even reduce the risk of hair loss.  

It takes years for researchers to study a medicine’s safety and effectiveness, but the FDA has programs to make medicines available sooner for those in need.

Imlunestrant (Inluriyo) is a hormonal therapy that treats estrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer with an ESR1 gene mutation.