Breast cancer: Breast cancer is the common type of cancer mostly found in women. This breast cancer occurs due to the abnormality growth of lump (mammogram) in the breast or due to rapid change in the consistency of breast tissue leads to breast cancer. Due to the increase in medical treatments and advanced screening techniques the death rate of breast cancer reduced to 20 percent.Breast cancer causes bone cancer due to metastatic cancer cells.
Breast cancer is a combination of several diseases with different types of causes, symptoms and treatments. It is of many types, in which abnormal growth of cells is common in all of them. Cells are the basic unit of life, they grow and divide into more cells when the body requires them. These cells forms the tissues and then organs, they are the building blocks of the body system. if there is an abnormal growth and division of cells without any controlling limit, then it results in forming tumor (excess tissue) in the body.
When the breast cancer cells spreads from the lymph nodes, they cause severe damage to other parts of the body. The most common parts are brain, liver, lungs and bones. The new tumor produced in the other part contains same characteristics of primary one. for examples if the breast cancer is spreads to the liver then the cancer is termed as metastatic breast cancer but not as liver cancer.
Causes of breast cancer: The main cause for breast cancer is not identified but the risk factors for the breast cancer are identified and here is the list.
Risk factors for breast cancer:
• Age: Age plays key role in defining breast cancer. People with above 40 will generally face this problem.
• Gender: Breast cancer occurs mostly to women. Only 1 percent of men face this problem.
•Family history: Breast cancer can be transmitted by the family hereditary. so please take regular checkups for reducing the risk factor of having breast cancer.
•Gene changes: Gene changes will increase the risk factor of having breast cancer. Changes in gene’s like BRCA1 and BRCA2 causes breast cancer. so have a checkup by your health care provider to reduce the risk.
•Lack of physical activity: Yes lack of physical activity increases the chances of having breast cancer in woman due to excess fat storage in the breast lymph nodes .going for regular workout will reduces the risk of having breast cancer.
•Being overweight: Being over weight resembles weak immune system. so, women with obesity problems have more chances to fallen for breast cancer.
•Smoking/Alcohols: Smoking of tobacco and drinking of alcohol increases the risk factors for sure. so please avoid them.
•Breast density: Due to dense breast tissue the chances of having breast cancer increases.
• Diethylstilbestrol: women who take this DES (Diethylstilbestrol) during pregnancy period will have more chances in getting breast cancer. so avoid taking DES.
•Radiation therapy: Women who take radiation therapy on chest in the young age have more chances to face gynecologic cancer after 40 years of age.
Symptoms of Breast cancer: These are the common symptoms that appear in the breast cancer woman.
• Change in nipple size. • Change in feeling of nipple • Nipple tenderness • Thickening of the breast area • Change in shape of the breast • Nipple discharge • Swelling in the breast part • Breast infections.
Treatment of Breast cancer:
Surgery: Surgery is the most common type of treatment followed to remove the cancer tumor. Depending upon the severity of the breast cancer, operation process is decided by the doctor.
Breast sparing surgery: This operation is carried to remove only the breast tumor but not the entire breast. so, this operation is named as breast-sparing surgery. The doctor also makes a small incision to know whether the cells have entered the lymphatic system.after this treatment process, the patient is taken for radiotherapy to kill the remaining cancer cells.
Mastectomy: Here in this operation process the entire breast is removed .This operation process is carried to remove the entire breast or much of the breast tissue along with lymph nodes. after this operation process the patient will go for radiotherapy for the complete destruction of cancer cells.
Chemotherapy: This treatment is given in the early stages of occurrence. Chemotherapy is one of the treatment methods useful in killing cancer causing cells by the usage of drugs. This treatment process is carried by either pills or through intravascular injections. The anti-cancer drug enters into the bloodstream and travels towards the damaged tissues and destroys the caner cells.Chemotherapeutic drugs attacks the cancer cells by stopping their unusual growth. The nature of the cancer cells were brought to the normal condition by controlling the divisibility of the cells. These drugs are carried in the bloodstream to kill destroy all the cancer cells within short period of time.
This cancer chemotherapy drug can be given at either clinic or at home. The usage of this drug can be daily, weekly or monthly depending on the stage of the cancer and body immune system. Chemotherapy treatment is given by considering the following basis like age, gender, drug toxicity and body weight. The dosage and usability should be carried under proper supervision.
Radiotherapy: Radiotherapy is a useful process for removing cancer cells by using high intensity x-ray beams. These high energy x-rays are aimed at the cancer affected part of the breast tissue to destroy the cancer cells in it. This process also causes damage to the normal cells for its side effects. there are two types of radiotherapy treatments they are.
• External Radiations: Radiations are given from the outer side of the breast by aiming at the effected part.
• Internal Radiations: Radiations are passed into the body by making some small incisions in the breast area. This treatment gives better results than the external radiation therapy.
Biological Therapy: Due to weak immune system in the body, there are chances for the development of breast cancer. so this Biotherapy treatment process is useful in rebuilding strong immune system in the body. Biotherapy is also called as immunotherapy or biological response modifier therapy. This treatment process is really useful in repairing, enhancing and stimulating the weak immune system of the body. This process can be carried along with surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Breast cancer is treated as a serious problem due to its effects. Bladder cancer can spread to other parts of the body .Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy are the best treatment methods for curing breast cancer.
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