What is Breast cancer, A life threatening problem

What is Breasts Cancer

A malignant tumor arises in the cells of the breasts. Most of the population of females affected by breast cancer. More than 220,000 women are diagnosed with the breast cancer every year. Breast cancer is the most common cancer amongst cancers.

Researches established that in the age of fifty years or above there is a high risk of incidence, but in the age of below twenty-five years there is a low risk of incidence. It's not been established that what is the cause of breast cancer, but there are many risk factors.

No breast is typical. Which is normal for you, will not normal for others. It can be effected after getting married, gaining weight, having children, taking medication and also with passing age.

Cancer cells are always being created in the human body. It is an ongoing process. The immune system of the body develops components who can destroy cancer cells. Cancer is not such a disease that attacks your immune system suddenly, but it slowly dominates your immunity and hold over it. Cancer had been around as long as humankind, but in the half of the 21st century it became deadliest.

Cancer tumors begin when more cancerous cells are created and can't be treated in early stages, meaning much has to be done fast, no one know it's cutoff points.

 Risk factors causing breast cancer

1. Age factor: Getting older in women can be a state of being prepared for this disease. It is important to be clear that breast cancer is very aggressive in women of 25-50 years old.

2. Menstrual cycle: it is another factor, that should be considered common in women having longer menstrual cycle, but it shows symptoms very late.

3. Smoking and drinking alcohol: Women are at high risk of developing breast cancer who smoking on a daily basis.

4. Breastfeeding: Many women doesn't feed their offspring after delivery. Breast cancer develop more frequently in married and spinsters women.

5. Those women who have had a breast cancer in one side, have greater risk to develop cancer on the opposite breast.

6. Probably, breast cancer is linked with obese and fatty women and those who intake saturated fatty acids.

7. Breast cancer is also linked with continuous uses of estrogen and progestin hormones therapy and also linked with whom using oral contraceptives for more than fifteen years. 

8. Genetic Mutation.

9: Reproductive history: Early period before the age of ten years and having menopause after age sixty years exposes women to hormones longer can raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Understanding the anatomy and physiology of breast can help women to know about any abnormalities and changes in their breasts.

 Common Symptoms

1. Lump or mass in the breast and under armpit.

2. Thickening, swelling, irritation, pain and dimpling of breasts.

3. Nipples discharge other than breast milk or bloody discharge.

4. Rashes around nipples.

 Treatment or Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is a word that show fear in people's hearts. The reality is, it doesn't make you sick, but most chemotherapy drugs will cause hair loss because chemotherapy kills the rapid proliferation of cancerous cells in your body.

 

 

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