Preparing for breast cancer treatment
A breast cancer diagnosis brings a lot of questions: about what will happen in the coming months and years and about what happens now as you get ready to start treatment. Treatment can be difficult, but thinking ahead can help you be ready, mentally and physically, for the coming months.
We’ll help you for be ready what’s coming. We’ll help provide you with practical information on what to expect when you go in for breast cancer treatment, ways you can prepare now to make things easier on yourself later, and ways to cope with side effects from treatment when they come.
Considering fertility
If you haven’t gone through menopause and interested in having children in the future, it is important to tell your doctor as soon as possible and ask to see a fertility specialists. Many breast cancer medicines can affect your fertility and even put you into menopause. Asking about fertility before starting treatment gives you the most options for protecting your fertility.
- Learn
- What is Breast Cancer?
- Signs and Symptoms
- Testing
- Types of Breast Cancer
- DCIS and LCIS
- Hormone Receptor-Positive
- HER2-Positive
- Triple-Negative
- Metastatic
- Diagnosis and Testing
- Bone Metastases
- Brain Metastases
- Liver Metastases
- Lung Metastases
- Treatments and Research
- Being in Treatment for Life
- Complementary and integrative medicine
- Goals of Treatment
- Making Treatment Decisions Throughout Your Care
- Clinical Trials for MBC
- Metastatic Trial Search
- Hormonal Therapy for MBC
- Targeted Therapy for MBC
- Chemotherapy For MBC
- Radiation Therapy for MBC
- Surgery for MBC
- Yoga and MBC
- Side Effects
- Bone Health and MBC
- Bone Pain and MBC
- Chemobrain
- Hair Loss and MBC
- Hand-Foot Syndrome and MBC
- Heart Health and MBC
- Insomnia and Fatigue and MBC
- Menopausal Symptoms and MBC
- Mouth Sores and MBC
- Nail and Skin Changes and MBC
- Nausea and Vomiting and MBC
- Neuropathy and MBC
- Neutropenia and MBC
- Pain and MBC
- Sexual Side Effects
- Sexual side effects
- Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Stress and Anxiety
- Metastatic Breast Cancer & Diet
- Self-Care for Stress and Anxiety
- Coping With Stress in Relationships
- Exercise
- Fertility and Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Intimacy and Sexuality
- Anxiety & Depression
- Navigating Finances
- Understanding Health Insurance
- Work/Life Balance
- Money, Insurance & Career
- Feelings of Loss
- Building Your Community of Support
- Talking With Family
- How to support a loved one with MBC
- Inflammatory
- Lobular
- Treatments and Research
- Getting a Second Opinion
- Preparing for treatment
- Surgery
- Breast Reconstruction
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation Therapy
- Targeted Therapy
- Hormonal Therapy
- Immunotherapy
- Clinical Trials
- Biosimilars
- Complementary Therapy
- Yoga and Breast Cancer
- Side Effects
- Anemia
- Bone Loss
- Bone Pain
- Chemobrain
- Diarrhea
- Fear of Recurrence
- Fertility
- Hair Loss
- Hand-Foot Syndrome
- Heart Health
- High Cholesterol
- Insomnia and Fatigue
- Lymphedema
- Menopausal Symptoms
- Mouth Sores
- Nail and Skin Changes
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Neuropathy
- Neutropenia
- Pain
- Secondary Cancers
- Sexual Side Effects
- Weight Gain
- Weight Loss
- Living With Breast Cancer
- Body Image
- Bone Health Basics
- Diet, Nutrition and Exercise
- Emotional Health
- Fear of Recurrence
- Fertility and Breast Cancer
- Genetics and Family Risk
- Job and Financial Concerns
- Financial matters
- Breast Cancer and the Workplace
- Telling Employers and Coworkers About Your Diagnosis
- Work Accommodations and Disability Benefits
- Managing hidden costs
- Getting Organized for Health Insurance
- Private, State and Federal Insurance
- Understanding your health insurance
- Dealing With a Claim Denial
- Other Ways to Get Insurance
- Financial Planning
- What is the ACA?
- Sex and Intimacy
- Birth Control and Breast Cancer
- Maintaining Sexual Life
- If You Feel Pain During Sex
- Sexual Side Effects
- Body Image and Sexuality
- Improving Sexual Health With Medical Approaches
- Improving Sexual Health With Self Care
- Talking With Your Partner About Sex and Intimacy
- Talking With Your Healthcare Team About Sex and Intimacy
- Signs of Recurrence
- Survivorship Care Plans
- Learning from Others
- Additional Resources
- Get Support
- How You Can Help
- News & Opinion