Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, in eight women during their lives. He may at any time, but it increases the risk of development, as women grow older. It is much more common in women after menopause and may continue to increase with increasing age.
Cause
The cause of breast cancer is not known, and while it may also occur in men, appeared much higher among women involves estrogen. Today, breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is regarded as the result of several environmental and hereditary factors.
Breathing secondhand smoke risk of breast cancer increases by 70% among young people, especially before menopause women. A new study shows a correlation between the decline in breast cancers and the decline of women, HRT.
Signs and symptoms
Breast cancer raises many fears, including those related to the transaction, death, loss of body parts of images and loss of sexuality, but it is easier to treat and often curable if is established early, therefore self-examination and regular screening is essential. Breast cancer shows a general rule, as a thickener in the chest or fabric, while most breast pieces are not cancerous.
Some factors predisposing to the hand.
The women at high risk are those who:
Signs of breast cancer as other pieces may also be changes in the size or shape of the breast, skin lumps, nipple inversion, or spontaneous Single-nipple discharge.
Types
When breast cancer of the skin penetration of lymph cells, small lymph in the skin of the chest, his presentation may look like inflammation of the skin and is known as inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). The symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer are pain, swelling, redness and warmth across the chest, and an orange peel texture of the skin is called orange peel.
The most pathological types of breast cancer are duktal invasive cancer, a malignant breast cancer and invasive lobular cancer channels in malignant breast cancer's lobules.
The time to submit a metastatic breast cancer as a disease, that is to say that cancer is the first organ. To bone or joint pain can sometimes forms of metastatic breast cancer, as jaundice or neurological symptoms.
Treatment
Many, there is still controversy on the treatment of breast cancer, the options include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone treatments, Herceptin and methods of treatment.
Major support of breast cancer is the treatment of the transaction, the tumor is localized, with the possibility of hormonal adjuvant treatment (with tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor), chemotherapy and / or radiotherapy.
In February 2007, the mother of printing test was the first predictor of breast cancer to gain the formal approval by the Food and Drug Administration. It is a new gene test to help predict whether women with early breast cancer is the case back in 5 or 10 years, it could help influence how the aggression is treated d 'original tumor.
Interstitiellen laser heat treatment (ILT) is an innovative method for treating breast cancer in a minimally invasive fashion and without the need for surgery distance, and with no negative consequences on health and survival of the patient during the inter - Follow-up.
Prevention
Routine (per year) mammography of women over age 40 or 50 is recommended by many organizations as a method of screening for breast cancer diagnosis at an early stage and have a protective effect in several clinical studies.
Women with one or more first-degree relatives (mother, sister, daughter) with premenopausal breast cancer should begin screening at an earlier age.
Prognosis
There are many factors related to breast cancer: Staging, tumor size and location of the class, if the disease is systemic (metastases traveled or other body parts), the resurgence of disease and age of patients.
Progress in early detection, diagnosis and treatment, the mortality rate for breast cancer has increased by about 20% during the last ten years, and research will continue to develop more effective programs screening and treatment.
Cause
The cause of breast cancer is not known, and while it may also occur in men, appeared much higher among women involves estrogen. Today, breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is regarded as the result of several environmental and hereditary factors.
Breathing secondhand smoke risk of breast cancer increases by 70% among young people, especially before menopause women. A new study shows a correlation between the decline in breast cancers and the decline of women, HRT.
Signs and symptoms
Breast cancer raises many fears, including those related to the transaction, death, loss of body parts of images and loss of sexuality, but it is easier to treat and often curable if is established early, therefore self-examination and regular screening is essential. Breast cancer shows a general rule, as a thickener in the chest or fabric, while most breast pieces are not cancerous.
Some factors predisposing to the hand.
The women at high risk are those who:
- Do you have a family history of breast cancer.
- Cycle menstrual cycles for a long time, began in early menstruation and late menopause.
- It has never been pregnant
- Have been for the first time a pregnant 31 years.
- Have unilateral breast cancer.
- If endometrial or ovarian cancer.
- Goods low radiation.
- Many other possible factors are still under consideration, including excess weight, alcohol and environmental factors.
- Precinct were 20 years ago.
- If multiple pregnancies.
- Are Native Americans or Asian.
Signs of breast cancer as other pieces may also be changes in the size or shape of the breast, skin lumps, nipple inversion, or spontaneous Single-nipple discharge.
Types
When breast cancer of the skin penetration of lymph cells, small lymph in the skin of the chest, his presentation may look like inflammation of the skin and is known as inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). The symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer are pain, swelling, redness and warmth across the chest, and an orange peel texture of the skin is called orange peel.
The most pathological types of breast cancer are duktal invasive cancer, a malignant breast cancer and invasive lobular cancer channels in malignant breast cancer's lobules.
The time to submit a metastatic breast cancer as a disease, that is to say that cancer is the first organ. To bone or joint pain can sometimes forms of metastatic breast cancer, as jaundice or neurological symptoms.
Treatment
Many, there is still controversy on the treatment of breast cancer, the options include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone treatments, Herceptin and methods of treatment.
Major support of breast cancer is the treatment of the transaction, the tumor is localized, with the possibility of hormonal adjuvant treatment (with tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor), chemotherapy and / or radiotherapy.
In February 2007, the mother of printing test was the first predictor of breast cancer to gain the formal approval by the Food and Drug Administration. It is a new gene test to help predict whether women with early breast cancer is the case back in 5 or 10 years, it could help influence how the aggression is treated d 'original tumor.
Interstitiellen laser heat treatment (ILT) is an innovative method for treating breast cancer in a minimally invasive fashion and without the need for surgery distance, and with no negative consequences on health and survival of the patient during the inter - Follow-up.
Prevention
Routine (per year) mammography of women over age 40 or 50 is recommended by many organizations as a method of screening for breast cancer diagnosis at an early stage and have a protective effect in several clinical studies.
Women with one or more first-degree relatives (mother, sister, daughter) with premenopausal breast cancer should begin screening at an earlier age.
Prognosis
There are many factors related to breast cancer: Staging, tumor size and location of the class, if the disease is systemic (metastases traveled or other body parts), the resurgence of disease and age of patients.
Progress in early detection, diagnosis and treatment, the mortality rate for breast cancer has increased by about 20% during the last ten years, and research will continue to develop more effective programs screening and treatment.