While a tremendous amount of research has been done on the causes of breast cancer, an exact breakdown by percentages or some such measure is still not completely accurate. Hormone levels and those levels related to age are factors. Diet and heredity are also among the most important indicators of breast cancer probability.
The hormones in question are estrogen and progesterone. Any levels significantly different from the average of the females at the age the woman is, represents an increase in probability of getting breast cancer. This includes age factors for the beginning age of menstruation as well as the ending age. If a girl begins menstruation at an early age, or a woman past middle age has not reached menopause, cancer risk increases.
Because of this connection, hormone therapy after menopause is not always a recommended practice – especially if there are is a family history with links to breast cancer.
The dietary aspect is also under scrutiny, but all indicators are that obesity and/or a diet that is high in percentage of calories consumed as fat are both positively linked to higher breast cancer probability. There are also indications that excessive alcohol usage is a prominent factor. Read more...
Early detection through regular breast self-exams and a regular program of mammogram and physical exams show excellent results in curing it. Breast self exam is the process developed by the American cancer society for women to examine the breasts monthly. This process can reveal breast problem. Any swelling or unusual lumps or hardness in the breast is the indication of breast disease and a reason to rush to your doctor.
Treatment for DCIS is usually much more aggressive than it’s in situ cousin, LCIS (or lobular neoplasia). Even though it is a serious condition, there is plenty of time to educate yourself and weigh all your options concerning treatment and possible reconstruction. There is close to a 100% rate of success in treating DCIS with the standard medical treatment.
Some women may choose to take tamoxifen and may possibly participate in the STAR clinical trial. The STAR trial compares the effects and preventative effectiveness of tamoxifen and raloxifene. Both drugs reduce the amounts of hormones in the breast tissue. These drugs are usually taken for a period of five years. Tamoxifen has shown in studies to reduce the occurrence of more advanced breast cancer by up to 49% in women that have had LCIS or that have additional risk factors for developing breast cancer. Read more...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and there is no better time to prevent it than now. While eating healthy foods and keeping fit can help to prevent breast cancer, it can still strike despite all of your efforts. Therefore, it is absolutely essential for you to schedule regular breast cancer screenings or DNA Testing. By discovering a cancerous tumor in your breast earlier, the greater your chance of survival will become.
Here is a look at some of our lifestyle risks that we can control:
- Being obese or overweight
- Diet high in saturated fat
- More than 2 alcoholic drinks per day
- Too little physical activity
- Taking birth control pills for longer than 10 years if under 35
Other risks we have no control over:
- Early menstruation or late menopause
- First child at an older age or not having given birth
- Age. Especially those over 65
- Reasonably Increased Risk if you have family history of breast cancer (especially mother or sister), personal history of breast cancer of benign (non-cancer) breast disease and/or dense breast tissue.
- You also have a high risk if you have had past radiation therapy to the chest. Other factors include hormone treatments, gene mutations like BRCA1 or BRCA2, or a parent, brother, sister or child with these gene mutations: Li-Fraumeni, Cowden, or Bannayan Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome. Read more...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and there is no better time to prevent it than now. While eating healthy foods and keeping fit can help to prevent breast cancer, it can still strike despite all of your efforts. Therefore, it is absolutely essential for you to schedule regular breast cancer screenings or DNA Testing. By discovering a cancerous tumor in your breast earlier, the greater your chance of survival will become.
Here is a look at some of our lifestyle risks that we can control:
- Being obese or overweight
- Diet high in saturated fat
- More than 2 alcoholic drinks per day
- Too little physical activity
- Taking birth control pills for longer than 10 years if under 35
Other risks we have no control over:
- Early menstruation or late menopause
- First child at an older age or not having given birth
- Age. Especially those over 65
- Reasonably Increased Risk if you have family history of breast cancer (especially mother or sister), personal history of breast cancer of benign (non-cancer) breast disease and/or dense breast tissue.
- You also have a high risk if you have had past radiation therapy to the chest. Other factors include hormone treatments, gene mutations like BRCA1 or BRCA2, or a parent, brother, sister or child with these gene mutations: Li-Fraumeni, Cowden, or Bannayan Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome. Read more...
Its breast cancer month and we are all about early detection and awareness. Every woman should do regular breast examinations to check for unusual lumps that may be dangerous, yet few women actually know how to perform these checks on themselves. Let us educate you on all the things you need to about your lady lumps.
How often should I check myself for lumps?
All women, regardless of age, should know how to check themselves for lumps and should do so on a monthly basis. In addition, professional checks by a physician or a gynecologist need to be done once a year or from the age of 20. From the age of 40, women should schedule a mammogram every year however, if you have a family history of breast cancer, even if it is only one relative, then it is advised to start having them sooner in life as well as more frequently.
What is a mammogram? Read more...
Perhaps you’ve heard some of them. If you have an abortion, you won’t be able to have children, or you will develop breast cancer or mental health problems.
Although there has been strong, evidenced based proof to the contrary, anti-abortion activists still claim that abortion threatens a woman’s ability to have future children and that she is at risk of developing breast cancer or mental illness.
Most anti-abortion activists oppose abortion for their own moral and religious reasons. Abortion foes repeatedly site research that suggests abortion can cause infection or injury which is sometimes undetectable at the time of the abortion which in turn increases a woman’s risk of pre-term and low birth weight delivery. Those studies fail to account for the fact that elements such as a history of sexually transmitted infection may be more common among women who have unintended pregnancies, and therefore may have an abortion.
The evidence from well designed, thorough studies shows no connection between abortion and future fertility. The research concludes that first-trimester abortions pose virtually no long term fertility risks, not only for low birth weight, but also for infertility, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage and birth defects. Read more...
Breast growth is stimulated by a sacred balance of hormones such as the precursor hormone progesterone and its derivatives estrogen and testosterone. Other factors included Human Growth and I-GHF hormones which assist with timing of the release of these hormones. Prolactin and progesterone work to promote glandular growth. Prolactin and estrogen work synergistically to allow fat storage, mainly in the breasts. Estrogen alone promotes fat storage.
The breast enhancement pill usually consists of herbs and natural botanicals that work together to encourage the breast tissue to grow through the use of powdered phytoestrogens, or plant-derived estrogen compounds that actually help stimulate a woman’s mammary glands and trigger further growth of the breast tissue, almost as if puberty were starting all over again and the body’s hormones were just beginning to activate the glands responsible for breast growth.
Breast cancer is a malignancy that starts as a single abnormal cell that duplicates itself beyond control. Breast cancer frequently develops in the ducts that carry milk to the nipple. This can also form in the milk producing small sac of the breast. Breast cancer can exhibit either a slow growth or a quick and aggressive growth that can spread to nearby lymph nodes or even to more distant areas. Read more...
Breast cancer affects one in eight women during their lives. Breast cancer kills more women in the United States than any cancer except lung cancer. No one knows why some women get breast cancer, but there is a number of risk factor.
As opposed to inherited genes, genetic mutations are recognized as one of the major causes of this disease. This one can be brought about by various environmental factors such as radiation exposure, which happens when a woman previously had a therapy or treatment.
Another aspect of urgent medical attention is that breast cancer is fully treatable if it is seen to early. In all women suffering from breast cancer, the tumor will undergo an initial benign stage. At this stage the tumor has not started its abnormal multiplication. If it is removed when it is benign, the cancer does not spread, and in most cases, the woman gets totally cured of the disease and leads a normal life.
Eating whole grains, green leafy vegetables, and fruit also give the immune system a boost and enable the body to wage its own war against cancer. Vitamin and mineral supplements help to fill in the gaps of nutrition you may miss from your diet. Antioxidants counteract the free radicals floating around your body, bind with them, and the body flushes them right out so they can do no harm. Read more...
Breast cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases for women and is in fact the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. The figure of those who have died from breast cancer has reached half a million for 2008 alone. What is even more dreadful about breast cancer is that the disease usually indicates the presence of other serious ailments that further compound the situation.
The Common Causes of Breast Cancer
Because of the enormity of the problem that a woman affected with breast cancer faces, it is very important to learn the risk factors and the causes of the cancer to ensure correct treatment for the disease. In understanding breast cancer, the following causes are the most common: Read more...
A lump in the breast or the swelling of the lymph nodes under the arm can mean the onset of breast cancer. But please note at this stage that 9 out of 10 lumps in the breast are usually benign which means they are harmless, and in most cases they turn out to be cysts. (But if you have a lump please get it checked out quickly)
It is a difficult task to have sex after the regular side effects of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, such as vaginal dryness. This is due to premature menopause which causes pain during sex. Usually it takes a longer time to get aroused and the touch of your partner is not as pleasurable as before.
Breast cancers have typical symptoms depending on their type. If the breasts keep getting very red, increasingly hard and sore, and sometimes get “bumpy” as if there are small hives near the inflamed area, it is inflammatory breast cancer. If the breasts are very itchy, develop red scaly rashes and can easily be mistaken, as it usually is, for eczema, it’s the Pagent’s disease. Do not stay in doubt, get it checked out. Read more...
