New Breast Cancer Treatment Options for Patients
Among all other diseases, the most common disease that makes a number of women to suffer these days is the breast cancer. Not only that it makes women suffer but it is also increasing the number of womens death rate yearly. Because of this increasing rate, people who are experts when it comes to medicine have developed a lot of ways to examine if they have early stages of cancer to prevent it. Aside from breast cancer examination, experts in the medical field tries to develop new treatment methods in order to help lower down womens death rate because of breast cancer. For more than several years, lumpectomies and mastectomies have been the undisputable way of treating cancer. However, they can have their own benefits and also disadvantages for women. As an example, lumpectomy will still need to require several days or weeks of post-operative treatments or procedures through radiation [...]
What is breast cancer survival rate
Prognosis is a medical term that refers to the description of the likely outcome related to an illness or disease. It gives an estimate of a patient’s survival rate. Breast cancer survival rate is based on many factors of the cancer. The type of cancer, treatment options, lifestyle and habits, as well as genetics play important roles in breast cancer survival. Breast cancer survival rate may be based on a standard five-year survival rate which estimates a patient’s prognosis through statistical data. The five year survival rate is the average number of patients who exceed the 5 year survival measure after being diagnosed. Five year survival rates exclude patients who die from other causes. A good number of breast cancer patients live much longer than 5 years after diagnosis. Although logically, the greater the cancer stage, the lesser the breast cancer survival rate. Averaging of survival rates are based on [...]
Understanding what really causes breast cancer…
I just go an email wiht the following question: just want somebody to tell me everything I need to know about breast cancer.What causes it,is it generic,are there foods or other things we use in our daily lives that actually cause it like perfumes? How about chemicals found in the preservatives used in packed or canned foods things like MSG .I would appreciate it if someone clarified this for me. For sure an interesting question…. what do you guys think?
Is it possible for a Male to get breast cancer?
Saranghae Key asked: This has always been question thats been in my head for years.
my close 14 year old friend might have breast cancer and I cant lose her. what is statistics she will live?
Viper81495 asked: She’s really close to me and she it might be hereditary. please, i need to know the answer=(
What is Breast Cancer
I received an email yesterday, requesting me to write about what is breast cancer. To start to explain exactly what is breast cancer I need to give you an overall info about this type of cancer. Malignant tumors are those that penetrate healthy body tissues. Malignant tumors, on the other hand, are dangerous and capable of growing rapidly and invading other tissues beyond their site of origin. Theoretically, any of the types of tissue in the breast can form a cancer, but usually it begins in the ducts or the glands. Cells normally grow and divide only when they are needed to keep our bodies functioning properly. But sometimes, the mechanisms that regulate cell growth stop working and cells divide out of control to form tumors. Cells in malignant tumors can penetrate and destroy healthy body tissues. Cancer cells can also break away from tumors and travel, or metastasize , [...]