Prevention is Key: Breast Cancer Screening

Posted by Diego on February 24th, 2016

When it comes to breast cancer, prevention is key. Scientists suggest looking at both protective and risk factors for preventing new cancers from forming. There are many risk factors that can be avoided but many others cannot be. As already mentioned, preventative measures and breast cancer screening are important for preventing it.

Most women have never taken breast cancer screening seriously. But with hormonal therapies in New York, you can take a big step in preventing breast cancer. At Dr. Sorkin, we provide you advanced hormone therapy solutions to help keep you at bay against the growing menace of breast cancer.

What is Hormonal Therapy?

Hormonal therapy medications are systemic treatment against hormone-receptor-positive breast cancers. These hormone receptors work as detectors on breast cells as they keep track of signals from hormones. When there’s growth in cells having receptors, the signals will “turn on.”

A very important factor that stands as a benchmark in hormonal therapies in New York is that majority of breast cancers are hormone-receptor-positive. If any cancer has receptors for progesterone or estrogen, it is considered hormone-receptor-positive.

Benefits of Hormone Therapy

The medicines used for hormonal therapies in New York help in the following ways:

• Lowering risks of early stage breast cancer returning.
• Lowering the risk of breast cancer in those who have higher risks but who have not been diagnosed yet.
• Helping with inhibiting or shrinking the development of advanced stage/metastatic breast cancers.

There are two ways in which these medicines help in treating hormone receptive positive breast cancers:

• By lowering hormone estrogen in your body
• By blockage of estrogen action in your body

Hormonal therapy is also referred to as anti-estrogen therapy. And it could be pretty useful to counteract the effects of any abnormal conditions you may present.

Protective Factors

Some of the protective factors for breast cancer are as following:

• Reduced exposure of breast tissue towards estrogen within the body
• Following estrogen-only hormonal therapies in New York post hysterectomy, aromatase inhibitors and inhibitors, or selective estrogen receptor modulators
• Ovarian ablation
• Risk-reducing mastectomy
• Even exercising regularly can help in reducing the risk

Do you have any questions about hormone therapy and how to prevent breast cancer? Feel free to contact us at Dr. Sorkin Center for Women’s Health. Give us a call today at 718 743 5300. You may also fill out this Contact Us form with your queries or you may also book an appointment with us online.