Treatment of breast cancer

If your breast cancer treatment starts with preoperative neoadjuvant therapy, the duration of the treatment period is 4–6 months. After your drug therapy, you will proceed to surgery. After surgery, we will plan your follow-up treatment individually in a multidisciplinary treatment meeting according to the treatment response achieved with the neoadjuvant therapy.

You will have a follow-up appointment about two weeks after your breast cancer surgery. During the post-operative appointment, we will check that recovery from the surgery has progressed as planned.

We will plan your post-operative follow-up care in a multidisciplinary breast cancer meeting. We will make the first post-operative appointment for you to see an oncologist in the Medical Treatment Unit or Radiation Therapy Ward at the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Your appointment is usually about 3–4 weeks after surgery.

During the appointment, we will review your treatment plan

During the appointment, a physician and a nurse will review your treatment plan, its implementation, and the side effects of the treatment with you. The oncologist will tell you what additional treatments are recommended for you. You may undergo laboratory tests or imaging examinations, such as a full-body computed tomography scan, beforehand. It is recommended that you fill in the patient history form sent to you with the invitation already before your appointment either electronically or on paper.

Your post-operative treatment usually starts about a month after the surgery, depending on the healing of your wounds.