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Information On Breast Cancer | Breast
Cancer
Screening
Breast
cancer usually happens when certain cells
located in the breast start to grow out of
control, taking over nearby tissue and
spreading throughout the body.
Large collections
of this infected tissue are called "tumors".
Some tumors are not even considered to be
cancer because they cannot spread throughout
the body or threaten a person's life. These
types of tumors are called "benign
tumors".
The types of
tumors that do spread throughout the body and
invade the tissues around the breast are
considered to be cancer and have been given the
name "malignant tumors". It is said that any
type of tissue in the breast can form some type
of cancer, but it mostly comes from either
ducts or glands.
It can take
months or even years for a tumor to get big
enough for someone to actually feel it in their
breast, so they are encouraged to be screened
for tumors by a mammogram.
Mammograms are
designed to detect any type of disease before a
person even begins to feel it.
Breast cancer is
the most common "malignancy" that affects women
in America and throughout Europe.
Every single
woman is at risk of getting breast cancer and
almost 200,000 cases of were said to be
diagnosed in the United States in 2001. It is
the second highest cause, behind lung cancer,
of cancer deaths among women in North
America.
The types of risk
factors for breast cancer are divided into two
types, those you can't change and those you can
change.
The factors
associated with increasing your risk of breast
cancer that your can't change include: just
being a woman, getting older, or having some
type of family history or a relative with
breast cancer.
Other risk
factors are having your menopause late, having
children past the age of thirty, or contracting
a genetic mutation that would somehow increase
your risk.
Certain types of
risk factors that you can change
are:
Not taking
hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which means
that long term uses of estrogens for menopause
symptoms does in fact slightly increase your
risk.
Stopping the use
of birth control pills, because it is noted
that ten years following the cessation of The
Pill, a woman's risk of breast cancer reverts
to what it would have been if she had not used
this form of birth control.
However, neither
of these risks are as significant as the ones
that are associated with your gender, age, and
family history.
All the factors
are based on probabilities, and that means that
a person without any of those mentioned is
still subject to developing breast cancer and
the best way to be sure is to get the proper
screening and detection for breast cancer
development.
There are
preventative measures that can be taken, up to
a point.
It is noted that
a drug called Tamoxifen is not used widely as a
prevention, but it has been proved to be
helpful in some cases.
There is also a
limited amount of data that suggests that
Vitamin A may be useful in the prevention of
breast cancer, but further research is needed
to prove this.
The most
important step for a woman to prevent breast
cancer is to schedule regular checkups,
screenings and mammograms, learn how to perform
her own exams, and also to acquire all the
information she can about the
subject.
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