“Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul” -Jim Valvano. Everyone battles and fights cancer, but have you ever thought about cancer in a different way other than people just fighting it. Like, how do you get it, How do cure it, how do people feel or is this common (can I get cancer)? Reading about this can give you a grasp of what you might/ might not think of during someone’s time of battling. By receiving breast cancer, you have a family member (or more than one member) who can carry a mutation. Inheriting BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are inheriting an autosomal pattern. Children need to inherit just one copy of the gene to have breast cancer. Additionally, out of every 100 who has a mutation of a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, as many as 60 will inherit and will develop breast cancer by 50, 70 approximately 80 years old. Also, the cells of cancer normally grow and divide grow or to replace damaged tissue, but sometimes the mechanisms that regulate cell growth stop working and cells divide. …show more content…
The main three treatments to cure breast cancer are different types of surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation. Surgery is often needed to cure a breast tumor. Options for surgery would be biopsy and mastectomy. On the other hand, chemotherapy is a treatment with cancer-killing drugs that may be injected by vein or by mouth. The drugs then travel through the bloodstream to regain cancer cells. Lastly, radiation uses high energy rays to kill cancer cells. This may be used to destroy any remaining mutated cells that remain in the breast or the armit. There are many different ways to cure and treat cancer, but these three are the most commonly known and used by people who have