Five of them women know the symptoms of breast cancer
Cause of the disease:
The cause of this cancer is unknown, but factors such as:
Genetics.
Virus.
Quality of food.
Radiation.
Medicines.
Hormones.
There are also factors that increase the possibility of the emergence of contracting cancer, including:
Age.
Pregnancy after the age of thirty.
Starting menstruation before the age of twelve.
Continuation of the menstrual cycle after the age of fifty.
Obesity.
Incidence of breast cancer in relatives.
It was found a relationship between breast cancer and other cancers in women, such as cancer of the ovaries, and the fact that 75% of this infectious disease can not be linked to appear in any of the above.
What are the signs and symptoms of breast cancer:
C 1: Every woman should be fully aware of the form and size and strength of her nipples and to periodically examine themselves every month after the end of the menstrual cycle a few days and must review and inform your doctor as soon as any of the following changes:
1 and a mass in the breast 'is usually not painful'.
2 discharge from the nipple, whether mixed with the blood or secretions yellow 'is mixed with the blood'.
3 Climate in the color of the nipple and the skin and the appearance of cracks or contraction of the nipple.
4 swollen lymph nodes under the armpit.
5 local pain breast 'Although most malignant tumors is accompanied by pain. "
What is required?
C 2: required by the instructions and guidelines for health centers and associations specialized in the field of breast tumors as follows:
Keep a check yourself regularly every month.
2 Check your breasts regularly ray every two years from the age of forty to fifty and then annually thereafter.
3 Choose a center there by the doctors specialize in the follow-up treatment with the same physicians can review the files and compared to X-rays every year and so any change can be detected easily.
Tips
1 eat less fat.
2 to avoid obesity.
3 foods to eat a lot of fiber.
4 a lot of eating fruits and vegetables.
5 When you see the doctor any symptoms of disease on the breast.
6 periodic inspection.
Walking reduces the risk of breast cancer
Scientific American study revealed that the practice of actively walking for an hour or two hours per week reduces the risk of breast cancer by 20 per cent for women and even in the case of their use of certain hormones to treat symptoms of menopause. It is based on research results of the study dealt with analysis of data for more than 74 thousand women between the ages of 50 to 79 years. The study found that women who engage in physical exercise for a limited period of time ranging from an hour and a quarter and a half to two hours per week fell with breast cancer by 18 per cent compared to women's activists. The results of the study suggest that exercise may reduce the impact of the use of the hormone that leads to the creation of breast cancer but does not eliminate those effects at all, according to Dr. 'Mac as Taznn' principal investigator at the Center for Research on Hutchinson individual breast cancer in Seattle. The study also demonstrated that the start of simple exercise at a later age for women is happening the same positive effects compared with those who engage in sports in the early stages of age.
Methods of treatment of malignant breast tumors
C 3: Breast cancer treatment varies depending on the stage or the degree to which a patient is diagnosed:
1 breast cancer stage I and II.
2 phase III breast cancer.
3 breast cancer stage IV.
Ways to treat breast cancer stage I and II.
Tumors in these two phases, which reduces usually 5 cm in circumference inside the breast with the possibility of the presence of lymph glands under the armpit, and there are two trends of treatment:
The first trend:
1 Remove the tumor and maintain the breast with removal of lymph nodes from under the armpit and giving radiation therapy to the breast.
2 complementary chemotherapy if cancer cells and found lymph nodes or if the patient is at the stage before menopause.
3 give the hormone therapy, especially if it found that the selection of cancer cells to the hormone-receptor positive.
The second trend:
If it were a small breast size and tumor is large or if the tumor is in an advanced stage topically preferred in these cases mastectomy with lymph nodes from under the armpit lymph nodes even if you give the patient's cancer cells chemotherapy and possibly radiation and hormone supplement.
Ways to treat the tumor stage III:
This is a tumor in an advanced stage of any localized tumor size greater than 5 cm or extended to the chest muscles or skin with the possibility of the presence of lymph glands under the armpit. In this case must be given chemotherapy before any surgical intervention 'about three sessions' even smaller size of the tumor may be possible in this case remove the tumor and lymph nodes and to maintain the breast and then give the rest of the chemotherapy and radiation and hormonal.
Ways to treat the tumor stage IV:
Tumor at this stage has spread to other parts of the body 'out of the breast' and treatment will often by the hormones the tumor if it is hormone receptor positive or chemotherapy if the hormone receptor negative, or tumor reversible after hormone therapy and sometimes to treat complications of tumor localized 'breast' as the existence of ulcers have a doctor to intervene surgically or give localized radiation to the breast.
