
A combination of two or more medicines will be used as chemotherapy treatment which means you get two or three different medicines at the same time. In some cases, chemotherapy is given before surgery to shrink the cancer so that less tissue has to be removed. When chemotherapy is given before surgery, it's called "neoadjuvant" chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy is always recommended if there is cancer in the lymph nodes, regardless of tumor size or menopausal status. Breast cancer in premenopausal women tends to be more aggressive, so chemotherapy is often part of the treatment plan. For some women chemotherapy is recommended to diagnose with early-stage breast cancer if the cancer is hormone-receptor-negative and HER2-positive.
During chemotherapy, maintaining adequate nutrition is to minimizing deficiency and optimizing your immune system, strength and treatment tolerance. Various cancer treatments may affect patients nutritionally. Add protein in your diet because protein is an important component of good nutrition, increase foods like cheese, ice cream, milk, eggs, peanut butter and others that can help you get the protein your diet needs during chemotherapy.
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