‘breast cancer’

Mammary Dysplasia: How to Identify It

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Mammary dysplasia is characterized by abnormal changes in the breast. It is a fairly common condition that affects many women in the world.

Mammary dysplasia generates changes affecting the surrounding tissue and glandular, but in turn may be accompanied by fibrosis, retention of fluid and cysts.

To identify mammary dysplasia attention to your symptoms:

• The breasts are uneven in consistency, dense areas are irregularities in the tissue, especially in the external quadrants.
• You feel a constant annoyance.
• There is a sense of congestion.
• There may be severe pain and tenderness.
• The discomfort in the breast is more intense after the rule.
• There are changes in the nipple. (more…)

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Learn How Mammograms are Performed

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

A mammogram is an x-ray of the breast. It is used to detect tumors and to help differentiate benign or malignant cancer problems. How is the test? You will pass a room where you find the computer. You’ll have to take off the top but will give you a gown to your tapes. Depending on the type of used equipment, you can stay seated or standing. A breast is placed on a flat surface that contains the x-ray

A device called a compressor will press firmly against the breast to help flatten the breast tissue. X-ray images are taken from several angles. You can ask the patient to hold your breath while taking each image. Sometimes you’ll be asked back at a later date to take more breast imaging. (more…)

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Bitter Melon Prevents Breast Cancer

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Ratna Ray, director of the study, explains that he was surprised that bitter melon extract, she prepares herself fried strips inhibited the growth of breast cancer cells. “To our knowledge, this is the first report describing the effect of bitter melon extract on cancer cells. Our results were encouraging. We have shown that bitter melon extract induces cell death of breast cancer and decreases growth and expansion. ”

Bitter melon extract, a powerful medicine. Ray said she decided to study the impact of bitter melon extract on breast cancer cells because other research has shown that the substance reduces blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Bitter melon extract used as traditional medicine to treat diabetes in China and India. (more…)

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Information on Metastatic Breast Cancer Is Limited

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Despite being one of the cancers with the highest prevalence, women with metastatic breast cancer often experience feelings of loneliness, this is due largely to the information available and the attention of society is weak and some sometimes inadequate.

This conclusion is the result of a poll conducted in nine countries (including Argentina and Mexico are) by the multinational pharmaceutical company Pfizer and presented at the last International Conference on Primary Therapy of Early Stage Breast Cancer, held in St . Gallen, Switzerland.
The aim of the survey was to identify the needs and experiences of women with metastatic breast cancer in terms of resources, psychosocial support and information about clinical trials and experiences.

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Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is the most advanced stage of breast cancer. It occurs when the cancer has spread beyond the breast to other parts of the body. Compared with early breast cancer, the prognosis for breast cancer at this stage is poor, the majority of deaths related to breast cancer are a result of complications of metastatic disease.
Life expectancy of patients with CMM is about three years although survival has been increasing since the 90s due to advances in diagnosis and treatment.
Metastatic breast cancer remains essentially incurable, the current goals of therapy are focused on relieving symptoms, slow the progression of the tumor, improve the quality of life and prolong survival. (more…)

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New Therapy for Lung Cancer

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

They proved that chemotherapy is effective after performing surgery. Treatment extends the life of cancer patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

For the first time in decades, doctors began to make major changes in the treatment of lung cancer, based on studies showing that chemotherapy can prolong the lives of many patients for whom it was once thought worthless.

The change affects 50,000 people per year in the United States suffering from the most common form of the disease, lung cancer non-small cell, and whose tumors were extracted by surgery. Many of these patients, who until recently would have been treated with surgery alone, now also receiving chemotherapy, a routine procedure after surgery for breast cancer or colon cancer. (more…)

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Those men are more likely to get breast cancer?

Monday, March 1st, 2010

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It ‘very rare for a man aged under 35 to get breast cancer, but the probability of developing the disease increases with age, with most being detected between 60 to 70 years. Family history of breast cancer in a close female relation and a history of exposure to radiation of the chest may also increase the risk.

The most obvious risk for developing breast cancer seems to be in men who have had an abnormal enlargement of their breasts (called gynecomastia) in response to drugs or hormone treatments, or even some infections and poisons. Individuals with a rare genetic disorder called Klinefelter’s syndrome, which often have gynecomastia, as part of the syndrome, are particularly prone to develop breast cancer. Men with severe liver disease tend to have lower levels of male hormones (androgens) and higher levels of female hormones (estrogen) by making an increased risk of developing gynecomastia and breast cancer. Furthermore, diseases of the testes, such as mumps orchites, an injury to the testicles, or an undescended testicle increase the risk of breast cancer in men.

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How men can get breast cancer?

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

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Even if people do not have breasts like women, who have a small amount of breast tissue. Actually my breasts “of an adult man are similar to the breasts of a girl before puberty, and consist of a few ducts surrounded by breast and other tissues. In girls, this tissue grows and develops in response to female hormones, but in men – who do not secrete the same amounts of these hormones – this tissue does not develop.

However, because it is still the breast tissue, men can develop breast cancer. In fact, men get the same types of breast cancers that women do, but tumors that involve the production of milk and the conservation of regions of the breast are very rare. According to the American Cancer Society, about 2,300 cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in men in 2009.
Why can not I Hear About Breast Cancer In Men As I have heard of breast cancer in women? (more…)

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