Breast cancer is a disease in which certain cells in the breast become abnormal and multiply without control or order to form a tumor. The most common form of breast cancer begins in cells lining the ducts that carry milk to the nipple (ductal cancer).
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women. Breast cancer, more specifically, is defined as a malignant tumor which has developed from cells in that area of the body. It is important to note that all tumors which appear in the breast area may not be malignant and a doctor consultation will determine whether a lump or tumor is benign or malignant. Breast cancer is a common disease.
Each year, approximately 200,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer, and one in nine American women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Breast cancer is hormone-dependent. Temperature can alter hormone function.
Treatment decisions depend on these findings. Treatments exist for every type and stage of breast cancer. Most women will have surgery and an additional (adjuvant) therapy such as radiation, chemotherapy or hormone therapy. Treatments with greater efficacy and/or fewer side effects are constantly being tested.
Here are 3 main points that must be considered when being screened for breast cancer.
1. Age: plays an important factor with breast cancer detection. The chance of getting breast cancer will increase in older women. Most cases of breast cancer occur in women over 60.
2. Your Personal history: plays a major role in your diagnosis with the disease. If breast cancer has been detected in one breast, there is an increased risk of getting it in the other breast.
3. Family history: If any one in you immediate family, including close relatives have developed breast cancer, you are at greater risk. The risk is also higher if someone in your family got breast cancer before age 40.
Some women have cells in the breast that look abnormal under a microscope. Having certain types of abnormal cells increases the risk of breast cancer.
Radiation therapy is the use of high-energy rays or particles to treat disease. It works by killing tumor cells or inhibiting their growth and division. Radiation therapy involves a radiation oncologist delivering radiation to the breast to destroy cancer cells. Radiation therapy works within cancer cells to make them unable to multiply.
Doctors know that breast cancer develops in phases from early to advanced stages (when it has spread to other organs). The earliest stage may have taken only a few weeks to develop before it is detected. Doctors and scientists are working on finding cures for all types of breast cancer. They are researching new medicines that may even help prevent the disease.
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