Cancer - Breast Cancer Treatments
Posted on April 23, 2009 - Filed Under Breast Cancer | Leave a Comment
Your doctor will take a number of things into consideration when deciding what treatment to prescribe for breast cancer. His decision will depend on various factors such as what type of breast cancer you have, the size of the tumour in the breast, the grade of the cancer cells, your cancer cells test results, whether you have had your menopause and your health in general.
The five main treatments for breast cancer are surgery, radiotherapy, hormone therapy, chemotherapy and biological treatments. Depending on your situation you could have any or even all of these treatments. As each case of breast cancer… Continue reading
Read More..>>Straight Talk About Breast Cancer
Posted on April 23, 2009 - Filed Under Breast Cancer | Leave a Comment
If a loved one of yours has been diagnosed with breast cancer, you will need some basic information, in order to help as much as you can. This article is meant to help you learn how breast cancer usually develops, what factors may put you at higher risk, and you can also learn more about symptoms and signs to watch for.
There are many things that lead to abnormal cell growth, the main result of which is often cancer. Cancer can result from stress, obesity, alcohol use, smoking, pesticides, hormones and pollutants. Or your cells might get rerouted by genetics to… Continue reading
Read More..>>Raise Awareness For Breast Cancer
Posted on April 2, 2009 - Filed Under Breast Cancer | Leave a Comment
October is ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’. Unfortunately scarcely any of us recall this. But breast cancer is a very real and terminal disease that can affect close to 200,000 women during a single year. A few women are fortunate enough to be able to fight it. But the majority of these woman do not have the ability to beat it off.
The only way that we might be able to genuinely support these women is to express to them we care for them. We have the power to also donate money to an organisation that works on breast cancer research and… Continue reading
Read More..>>Signs of Breast Cancer
Posted on April 2, 2009 - Filed Under Breast Cancer | 2 Comments
Detecting signs of breast cancer may be misleading. Some women think that having a lump on your breast or under your arm already means that you have one. Often there are no physical signs that you can see or feel. Some outside signs may include a lump or thickening of an area, or a dimple in the breast.
Redness and swelling of the breast or an enlargement in the axillary lymph nodes are less common signs. These said lumps may be just benign (non-cancerous).
If you are able to detect a lump, or if you may have worries that you have breast… Continue reading
Read More..>>Breast Cancer Causes - How to Identify and Prevent Breast Cancer
Posted on April 2, 2009 - Filed Under Breast Cancer | Leave a Comment
Identifying breast cancer causes can help health experts and doctors formulate methods for treating such condition. Basically, the cancer starts at the tissues of the breast and the type of breast cancer that one experiences is determined by exactly which part of the breast is affected.
Having knowledge about possible breast cancer causes can help create awareness of what lifestyle choices or other health choices are to be made in order to prevent this condition.
Below are just some of the most common causes of this illness recognized to date.
Breast Cancer Cause # 1: Hereditary Factors
Although it has been known that only… Continue reading
Read More..>>Lobular Breast Cancer
Posted on April 2, 2009 - Filed Under Breast Cancer | Leave a Comment
Cancer would surely be easier to detect and treat if it were a single entity with a single simple cause. But it is not. Experts agree that there are actually some 200 different diseases that can be called cancers. Lobular breast cancer is one of them.
Cancer of the breast is one of the oldest and best-known types of cancer. In terms of the way the cells appear under a microscope, you can categorize the various types of breast cancer which are as follows: ductal, lobular, medullary, mucinous, tubular breast cancer.
The hormonal factors involved in the physiology of the disease have… Continue reading
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