Education Categories:

• General Information About Breast Cancer
• Stages of Breast Cancer
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer
• Recurrent Breast Cancer
• Treatment Option Overview
• Treatment Options by Stage
• Treatment Options for Inflammatory Breast Cancer
• Treatment Options for Recurrent Breast Cancer
• Overview of Prevention
• Breast Cancer Prevention
• What is Screening?
• Mammograms
• What is a Mammogram?

Category: Treatment Options for Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Treatment Options for Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Treatment of inflammatory breast cancer may include the following:

• Systemic chemotherapy.
• Systemic chemotherapy followed by surgery (breast-conserving surgery or total mastectomy), with lymph node dissection followed by radiation therapy. Additional systemic therapy (chemotherapy, hormone therapy, or both) may be given.
• Clinical trials testing new anticancer drugs, new drug combinations, and new ways of giving treatment.

This summary section refers to specific treatments under study in clinical trials, but it may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.

Acknowledgement given to the National Cancer Institute as originator of the information provided herein, with the NCI web site www.cancer.gov as the source.