Is most breast cancer treatment inpatient or outpatient?

Is most breast cancer treatment inpatient or outpatient?

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In regards of breast cancer, in general, the treatment for breast cancer is outpatient as opposed to inpatient. For surgery, sometimes women need to be hospitalized for a day; if there are complications, sometimes a little bit longer. However, most of the treatment is given on an outpatient basis and the chemotherapy is all outpatient. The radiation, the hormonal therapy, is all outpatient too. Occasionally, there can be complications from chemotherapy, like infections or other side-effects that can require a woman to be hospitalized. But, that's the exception rather than the rule, and most women are able to be treated at home, living their lives at home, rather than in the hospital during their treatment.