Farmacologia Clínica e Biofarmacêutica

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Novel Approaches for Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment: A Review

Lynn Mouawad

Latest statistics proved breast cancer being the second leading cause of death in women in the world, which has led to an increase in public awareness for early screening and detection in order to reduce breast cancer death cases. Since the last two decades, many advances have emerged regarding its screening and treatments resulting in more efficient, less toxic results, and fewer death rates. This review paper highlights the different types of breast cancer, its different screening strategies such as mammography the gold standard technique and biosensors a new emerging device, and the different kind of treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy (non-drug therapy), chemotherapy, nanotechnology integration, or gene replacement therapy (drug-therapy).