Think about eight of your closest female friends or family. One of those eight may be diagnosed with breast cancer within her lifetime.
Now imagine one hundred and twelve women. That many women will pass away in one day because of breast cancer.
In this paper, we will briefly discuss signs and symptoms, diagnosing, staging, treatment and prevention.
Cancer is uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Breast cancer is cancer that forms in the breast tissue. Our technology and research is getting better at treating it but it can be deadly. The sooner you find out and start treating it the better the outcome will be.
The most important part of breast cancer is diagnosing it. It is important for you to know your body and be able to detect
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It can be given internally or externally. The radiation is centered on the chest with cancer. It will skip the lymph nodes if they are not cancerous. Radiation is typically given for 5 days a week for about 5-6 weeks.
Chemotherapy is a treatment that is taken by mouth or injected. It is created to destroy all cancer cells in the body. The drugs will travel through the bloodstream to reach the cancer cells. Chemotherapy can be done before or after surgery. There are no found differences between getting chemotherapy before or after. Chemotherapy before surgery is done if a patient’s cancer is not localized, or if the doctor wants to see how the patient will respond. Chemotherapy after is used to kill any leftover cells that were not removed by surgery. It will also reduce the risk of cancer coming back.
Hormone therapy is a method to keep cancer from coming back. Estrogen promotes the growth of cancer cells. With hormone therapy they eliminate estrogen from the woman's body. They hope that it will keep cancer cells
Targeted therapy is a new method that transforms how we treat cancer. The method is personalized for each patient. It is targeted for that specific area and kills cancer