Breast cancer is a disease that arises because of the growth of breast cells to excess. From all over the world, breast cancer was placed in fifth position as one of the causes of cancer death after: lung cancer, cervical cancer, liver cancer and colon cancer.
Causes of Breast Cancer
Breast cancer disease the most common cancer attacking women but men also have the possibility to attacking this disease with a ratio between 1 in 1000. Until now has not known for certain what causes this cancer occurs, but several factors likely are:
Age: breast cancer increases at young age and above.
Genetic: there are two types of genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) that are possible as a risk. If mother or sister of breast cancer, then you have risk of breast cancer.
The use of Medicines, for example a woman who uses hormone replacement therapy as exogenous hormones.
Other factors suspected as the cause of breast cancer is; not married, married but no children, birth to their first child after age 35 years, never feed a child. Some studies reveal that breast cancer increased in people who often deal with stress conditions (shock soul) and also for women who menstruate before 11 of age.
Signs and Symptoms of Breast Cancer Disease
For those of you who felt a strange lump surrounding breast tissue or even one of your breasts look bigger. These bumps are generally painless, ranging from small size would become huge and palpable as attached to the skin. Several cases of breast skin changes around the lump or change in the nipple.
When the lump started to grow, then pain when pressed. If you feel pain in the breast and nipple that does not go away, you should immediately consult a medical. The nipple into the contract, which was pink and finally become brown and evens the existence of edema (swelling) around the nipple, this is sign of breast cancer. Another thing is the frequency of discharge from the nipple when not nursing a baby.
Breast Cancer Diagnosis Disease
Breast cancer can be ascertained by taking samples of breast tissue that have swollen (action biopsy). This way to know what kind of growth experienced by cells, whether the tumor is benign or malignant tumors (cancer).
Breast Cancer Disease Type
Through the mammograms examination, there is two type of cancer:
Non-invasive breast cancer: cancer that occurs in the bag (tube) milk (link between the alveoli that producing milk and nipples). In the medicine called “ductile carcinoma in situ “(DCIS), the cancer not yet spread to the outside of the network milk bag.
Invasive breast cancer: cancer that has spread out the bag of milk and attack the surrounding tissue may even lead to the spread (metastases) to other body like lymph and other glands through the blood circulation.
Breast Cancer Treatment
Treatment of breast cancer depend on the type and stadium experienced by the patient. Generally someone know has breast cancer after stepped-up stadium, this is due to a lack of knowledge or shame.
Surgery, in the known breast cancer early so surgery was the right thing. The doctor will remove the lump and a small area surrounding the then replaces it with another muscle tissue (lumpectomy).There are 3 surgery of breast cancer,including:
- Radical Mastectomy: the surgical removal of part of the breast (lumpectomy). This surgery is always followed by the provision of radiotherapy. Lumpectomy is usually recommended in patients with large tumor less than two cm and located on the edge of the breast.
- Total Mastectomy: the surgical removal of the entire breast, but not the glands in the armpit.
- Modified Radical Mastectomy: the surgical removal of the entire breast, breast tissue in the sternum, collarbone and ribs and lump around the armpit.
Radiotherapy (radiation), the irradiation in the area affected of cancer using X-rays and gamma rays are aimed to eliminate the cell of cancer remaining in the breast after surgery. These actions have bad effects as the body becomes weak, decreased appetite, skin color around the breast to be black and hemoglobin and leukocytes was decrease as a result of radiation.
Hormone Therapy, This is known as ‘anti-estrogen Therapy’ that the system works to hold the exist of hormones estrogen’s.
Chemotherapy, this is the process of providing medicine in the form of anti-cancer pills or capsules or liquid through the infusion aimed to eliminate the cells of cancer. The impact of the patients experienced chemotherapy is nausea and vomiting and hair loss due to the influence of drugs given during chemotherapy.
Herceptin treatment, biological therapy effective against HER2-positive in women who have breast cancer stadium II, III and IV.
Breast Cancer Prevention
see the previous articles “How to Prevent Breast Cancer’s from The Natural”
