Breast Cancer Information Is Important

The types of tumors that do spread throughout the body and invade the tissues around the breast are considered to be cancer and have been given the name “malignant

tumors”.It is said that any type of tissue in the breast can form some type of cancer, but it mostly comes from either ducts or glands. It can take months or even

years for a tumor to get big enough for someone to actually feel it in their breast, so they are encouraged to be screened for tumors by a mammogram.  Mammograms are

designed to detect any type of disease before a person even begins to feel it.

Breast cancer is the most common "malignancy" that affects women in America and throughout Europe.  Every single woman is at risk of getting breast cancer and almost

200,000 cases of were said to be diagnosed in the United States in 2001.  It is the second highest cause, behind lung cancer, of cancer deaths among women in North

America. 

The types of risk factors for breast cancer are divided into two types, those you can’t change and those you can change.  The factors associated with increasing your

risk of breast cancer that your can't change include: just being a woman, getting older, or having some type of family history or a relative with breast cancer.  Other

risk factors are having your menopause late, having children past the age of thirty, or contracting a genetic mutation that would somehow increase your risk. 

Certain types of risk factors that you can change are:
- not taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which means that long term uses of estrogens for menopause symptoms does in fact slightly increase your risk. 
– stopping the use of birth control pills, because it is noted that ten years following the cessation of The Pill, a woman’s risk of breast cancer reverts to what it

would have been if she had not used this form of birth control.

All the factors are based on probabilities, and that means that a person without any of those mentioned is still subject to developing breast cancer and the best way

to be sure is to get the proper screening and detection for breast cancer development. 

There are preventative measures that can be taken, up to a point.  It is noted that a drug called Tamoxifen is not used widely as a prevention, but it has been proved

to be helpful in some cases.  There is also a limited amount of data that suggests that Vitamin A may be useful in the prevention of breast cancer,  but further

research is needed to prove this. 

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