Breast Cancer Medicines

We’ve all been hearing alot about breast cancer over the radio lately. Not only that, you’ve also been reading alot about breasts on dailymuscle.com lately too. Obviously, my writeups weren’t talking about cancer awareness.. but this one is.

Anyway, if you havent realised by now, or have been living in a cave, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Yes, not only here in Malaysia, but pretty much all over the world. This month is dedicated to increasing awareness of breast cancer issues - especially on the importance of early detection.

Breast cancer is very real, and it could happen to you… so don’t let the ads and campaigns and reading you come across fall to deaf ears by saying that ‘it won’t happen to me.. ‘. Cos it just might. And as with all health complications.. early detection greatly increases the success of your treatment should you be diagnosed with breast cancer. Whoever you are, whatever your age or background, it is important to be aware that it could happen to you, or your loved ones.

Although always thought of as a ‘women-only’ problem.. men also need to be aware of changes in their breast tissue. Did you know that approximately 300 men in the UK get breast cancer each year? Surprised? I was too..!

A breast self-exam (also known as a BSE) involves both a visual and physical examination of your breasts, and it doesnt cost you anything. You should also get a clinical breast examination by a healthcare professional at least every 3 years starting at the age of 20, and every year after the age 40.

Ultimately, only you will know better than anyone how your breasts look and feel normally, so if you do notice a change, see your doctor and don?t worry that you may be making an unnecessary fuss.. your health is at stake.. why care what the doctor thinks? Most breast changes may not be cancer, but could just be normal changes or benign breast conditions. Also, only your doctor would be able to reassure you that there is nothing to worry about.. so don’t form assumptions on your own.

I have to admit, that I am certainly no expert in this issue. But what I’d like to think I’m reasonably good at is in convincing people to take charge, realise the importance, and take care of the body they possess and have been entrusted with - cos nobody else can do it for you.

And now… for the moment of truth.

Is DM going to teach you how to do a breast self-examination? (and in the process, satisfy the lust of a few stray perverts who may have ended up on this page?)The answer is No.But why not?Simply because I have absolutely no idea on how it should be done! And seeing how I myself have no idea.. all the more I’m pretty certain that a huge majority of women out there are equally clueless just like me.

I’d like to leave you with a link to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation where you can view a Step-by-step Visual demonstration of the Breast Self Exam, all at the comfort and privacy of wherever you may be.

Josh Stone, also known as DM is the author behind the site www.dailymuscle.com which offers the author’s personal views on real-life fitness, bodybuilding, sports nutrition, cardio, fat loss, training information, and on all things that surrounds fitness.

Nothing is more important than your health-you have heard this for years and years and finally realize that this true. A major disease that strikes thousands of women every year can be detected early and the survival rate is increasing.

Did you know that every two minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer or that more than 211,000 new cases of breast cancer are expected in the United States? You should know a few simple facts about breast cancer awareness that could save your life.

You know the routine and that you should follow your doctor’s recommendations to get a mammogram on a regular basis?whether every 3 years or every year, this simple test can detect early changes in your breasts.

There are also self examinations that you should perform every month at home. I know what you are thinking-what a pain, but you can make this a simple procedure you do the first of every month when taking your shower. This is a particularly good time because your body is wet and the soap helps your hands move quickly and easily over your skin as you check for lumps.

Other than these two proactive items you can do, what else can help you be more diligent about breast cancer awareness? This is also simple and easy to follow. Be aware of the different symptoms of breast cancer. These include but are not limited to feeling a small, firm and painless lump checking your skin for unusual swelling or appearance a difference in size or shape that was never there before.

Also, you should know what your nipples look like-as women, we usually neglect ourselves to take care of others. Do you know what your nipples look like and would you know if there was a change in them? If the skin on your nipples changes texture, has a rash or discharge or suddenly become inverted-this is a great time to go and see your doctor.

Knowing everything you can about breast cancer awareness will provide you with an opportunity to not only take care of yourself but also your mother, sisters, daughters and friends. As women, we are bound by our common fear and misunderstanding of this terrible disease, but it does not have to be a death sentence. Early detection and treatment has increased the survival rate of breast cancer survivors to over 90%.

Become active in your community whether helping to coordinate a mammogram day at your church or office where women can sign up for the test. If you are already a survivor, sign up with your local hospital to talk to women currently being treated for the disease?they need to see that life will once again be normal for them.

We are all sisters in this battle to educate each other about breast cancer awareness and to help each other through our morale support and love for each other.

For more information on breast cancer visit http://www.breastcanceranalysis.com - a website that specializes in providing breast cancer related information and resources including information on breast cancer awareness.

Medical researches attempt to define risk factors in order to discover who is most likely to get a particular disease and also to find clues as to the disease’s cause and thus to the prevention and cure.

A risk factor is usually determined by taking a large population of people - say 1,000-2,000 or more - and identifying a variety of features about them, determining who gets the disease under study and then seeing what the relationship is between the disease and the features that commonly occur within the group. It is important how the findings from population researches are being used. If you determine that out of your 2,000 people under study, 500 got the disease and all 500 drank milk as infants, you can’t decide from this that milk-drinking causes breast cancer. If none of the 1,500 drank milk as infants, you might be on the right track if as is more likely, all 1,500 did drink milk, you’ve learned nothing except that most people drink milk as children.

Sometimes, as in the case of lung cancer and smoking, risk factors are dramatic and can make a clear difference to the individual’s likelihood of getting the disease. Unfortunately, it usually doesn’t work this way. In breast cancer, several risk factors, such as family history, have been identified. But so far, there is nothing comparable to the correlations found between cholesterol and heart disease, or between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. 70% of breast cancer patients have none of the classical risk factors in their background. It is important to understand this for two reasons. Overestimating the importance of risk factors can cause needless mental distress if you have one of them in your background. On the other hand, you may create a false sense of security if you don’t have them. Most breast cancer patients do not have a family history of breast cancer. By virtue of being a woman, you are at risk of breast cancer.

Another thing to note is that the risk factors do not necessarily increase in a simple arithmetical fashion if one risk factor gives you a 20% risk of acquiring breast cancer and another gives you another 10% chance, it doesn’t always mean that you’re up to 30%. The interaction of risk factors is a tricky and complicated process. One interesting example is in the studies on alcohol and breast cancer, which shows that women with other risk factors who also drank liquor didn’t increase their risk very much, while women with no other risk factors who drank raised their risk dramatically.

Most breast cancer still occurs in white women over 50 - about 50% of cases. Your risk at age 30 is 1 in 5,900 / year. By age 40, it is 1 in 1,200 / year, so the risk of getting breast cancer before you’re 50 is very small. The median age of diagnosis of breast cancer is 64, which means that half of women who get breast cancer will get it before age 64 and half will get it after. So whenever risk factors or breast cancer is discussed, it is important to correct for age. Other risk factors - family history, hormonal factors, etc. - will most likely cause breast cancer only in combination with rising age.

Another factor that needs to be considered is the effect of variability of ethnic groups. The risk of African-American women and other women of color is less than that compared to Caucasian women. This is a disease that is predominantly found in non-Hispanic white women. African-American women have rates similar to those of white women premenopausally. That won’t necessarily be comforting news to African-American women, however, though it’s less common in that group, it’s often more deadly.

The difference in vulnerability to breast cancer works on international level as well. Third world countries have less breast cancer than highly industrialized countries.

Michael Russell

Your Independent guide to Breast Cancer

Over the years, various news reports have associated many different lifestyle factors with an increased risk of developing breast cancer. The most common have been: obesity, low levels of physical activity, using hormone therapy, eating meat, not eating enough fresh vegetables and fruit, alcohol consumption, smoking, not having children or having children ’later’ in life, and not breast feeding.

Time and time again, we see reports and studies that point the finger of blame to just one factor. These short-sighted theories continue to fall flat on their faces. Of course it’s not just one thing. Of course it’s not just one cause. That’s unscientific thinking.

For every woman who, for example, has a low level of physical activity and also happens to develop breast cancer, there are many more who share the same sedentary lifestyle and will never develop the illness. Yet, we know of many extremely active women who have developed breast cancer. It’s not one thing.

It’s the same as the fit, trim, veggie-eating-picture-of health-person who suddenly experiences major health issues. Meanwhile that same person has relatives of a ripe old age who have never exercised a day in their lives, eat bacon and eggs and fast food all the time, can’t remember the name of a vegetable, let alone the last time they ate one, and lay on the couch all day watching television, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes! There they are - “healthy” at 90 years of age!

How do we explain this? It’s certainly not genetics. How could it be? Think of all the examples in your own family where that makes no sense. There’s always somebody who was “the first” to develop a so-called genetic disease. And there are always family members who will never develop certain chronic illnesses that their relatives have. It doesn’t add up.

In my family, my mom was the first and only to ever be diagnosed with breast cancer. She has 5 sisters and dozens and dozens of aunts and nieces. Her sisters are all in their late 70’s and 80’s now, and several aunts are in their 90’s. No breast cancer. She was the only one. Where’s the genetic connection?

The challenge is that it’s not that easy. It’s not that clear.

Our current level of health is 100% the result of the choices we have made up to this point in our lives, as well as the external environment we’ve been exposed to throughout the years.

Everything that we’ve ever eaten, drank, inhaled, every drug we’ve ever taken, everything we’ve ever thought or felt, how we’ve slept, our stress levels, how we’ve moved our bodies, how we feel about ourselves and others, whether or not we have children, whether or not we nursed them, every injury we’ve ever had, every toxin we’ve been exposed to in the air and water, every body care product we’ve ever used, every lawn and gardening product we’ve ever been exposed to, every bug spray and sunscreen we’ve ever applied, every vitamin we’ve ever taken, whether or not we’ve been vaccinated…

The science of Epigenetics does a much better job of explaining the cause of chronic illness than does genetics alone. Epigenetics quite simply proves that the environment is what determines the expression of our genes, not some mystical power within the genes themselves. Lifestyle choices create our environment.

We have trillions of cells in our body, and each one of them has it’s own stored memory of it’s experiences. Every person responds differently (physically, chemically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually) to life and its many intricate components. How could we possibly think that just one thing could affect us all the same?

It’s overwhelming to think about! I choose to focus on what I CAN control right here, right now. I can choose to create health by making pure and sufficient lifestyle choices (in what I eat, how I move and how I think), while simultaneously reducing or eliminating as many toxic and deficient choices as possible. Thanks to Dr. James Chestnut for simplifying lifestyle choices like this.

The choices I make NOW will determine my future health.

We may not know the one exact cause of cancer, but we DO know how people get sick… too much toxicity and deficiency for too long, without enough purity and sufficiency. We can change that.

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Breast Cancer in women is second only to lung cancer deaths and a woman in the United States has a 1 in 8 chance of having breast cancer in her lifetime. That’s a startling 13 percent chance that any woman in the U.S. will get breast cancer during her life.

Breast Examination is vital to a woman’s health and personal care. There are a number of things you should be aware of when doing a self-examination obviously any lump or change in the shape of your breast is reason to have further testing performed. If the breast develops dimpling or the nipple area begins to invert itself, or lumps in the underarm area are also symptoms to have checked by your physician.

Most importantly, it is imperative you know that there really are no definite signs of breast cancer, so get tested regularly!

Having a mammogram is not the most comfortable test to have performed, but the opportunity to live a long and healthy life by getting early detection is worth the short-term discomfort. Recently, there have been new breast examination techniques made available whereby the mammogram procedure may be avoided. The age of medicine is always improving and progressing in our abilities to learn more with less personal invasion. This is even more of a reason not to make excuses not to be checked regularly.

As a woman ages her chances of contracting breast cancer increases dramatically. At age 30 the chances are 1 in 2212, and by age 40, the odds greatly increase to 1 in 235. By age 60, the odds are 1 in 23, so if nothing else prompts you to perform constant monthly self-examinations and yearly office exams with your doctor.

Breast cancer respects no one, and there is no assurance that if your family genealogy does not have a history of breast cancer, you won’t contract breast cancer. Don’t find reasons not to find out about your current health stats. The procedures are covered under wellness provisions in most insurance policies, so again, get tested regularly.

In our age of breast enlargement and plastic surgery, breast cancer examinations at home may be more difficult to detect changes in the breast, so if you have breast implants, please have yourself check with your doctor on a regimented schedule. It’s better to protect your investment for the long term if for no other reason. Hopefully you are not the assuming type, whereby you don’t feel pain or observe any changes therefore all is well. Breast cancer does not necessarily show any symptoms, but the office tests rarely miss any stages of breast cancer. Should your doctor find any cancer, the earlier the better and with minimal physical changes in your appearance. Just be safe and not sorry for assuming all is okay.

To learn more about breast cancer and other cancers that you can be tested for, take a look at this site for more detailed symptoms, changes, and hidden clues only you would notice

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Jim is an online write and entrepreneur who delves into topics of high reader interest and his insights and directions on what he has deiscovered is worth the time invested in his articles. Today, he has found that breast cancer awareness is still lacking in it’s application and adhering to the testing.

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Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in women if the relatively less aggressive skin cancer is excluded from counting. Breast cancer accounts for about 32 percent of all cancer diagnosed in women.

Breast cancer is very uncommon in male. In families carrying the breast cancer associated genes, male members may be affected disproportionately compared to the general population. In the general population female to male breast cancer may occur at a rate of 1 to 100 (1:100 for male: female).

Prior to introduction of mammography screening breast cancer was often diagnosed as a large lump in the breast, because women were not paying attention to the development of breast tumors. Introduction of mammography had significantly changed the natural history breast caner. In industrialized nations like the United States breast caner is most commonly detected on mammography screening. Mammography screening also brought a great sense of awareness to women and this has resulted in earlier detection of breast cancer.

Even if a woman does not get mammography screening, they are very much aware of the risk of development of breast cancer and thus tend to observe and even examine their breasts. Most women do self-breast examination in between mammograms. Because of this increased awareness, women presenting with locally advanced breast cancer are quite rare in the industrialized nations.

In some women breast cancer may have spread to distant organs, before mammography screening or symptoms showed the breast cancer. This can happen because early stage breast cancer does not usually cause any symptoms. If the cancer has spread to other organs these women may present with symptoms related to these organs. For example if the cancer has spread to the bone the woman may develop bone pain or bone fracture.

Diagnosis of breast cancer involves a biopsy procedure. Most often an abnormality in the mammogram leads to a biopsy, many other times, the woman may have felt a lump in the breast or the physician examining the patient may have felt a lump in the breast.

Biopsy is the procedure by which a small part of the breast tissue is removed and examined under the microscope. A typical beast cancer would show classic features of breast cancer. Sometimes the abnormality may be a non-invasive breast cancer or so called carcinoma in situ.

Copyright ?Medicineworld.org 2006

Scott William is the webmaster for Medicineworld.org a site dedicated to medical information. For more information regardings diagnosis and symptoms of breast cancer please visit authors website.

Though obesity at the time of diagnosis has been linked with decreased survival, it is unclear if weight gain following diagnosis affects survival from breast cancer. Weight gain is usual in breast cancer patients later than diagnosis.

The consequences of low body weight at the time of diagnosis and weight loss following diagnosis have been studied less frequently. Three studies have accounted poorer survival for women of low body weight at the time of diagnosis; two of these accounts saw this consequence simply in women with advanced breast cancer. One study gave an account that the loss of eleven or more pounds in women of any body size was linked with poor survival. This might be since women with advanced breast cancer frequently lose much weight.

Lots of women who’ve had chemotherapy for breast cancer report gaining weight as long as the treatment, although the reasons for an expanding waistline are not yet well unspoken. The fact is not observed in patients who have surgery alone, or surgery followed by radiation.

After fighting breast cancer, the fight of the bulge might seem insignificant to lots of women. For others, the extra pounds might be upsetting. For good or ill, well-liked American culture puts a premium on being slender. And for a women adjusting to the loss of a breast or other physical alterations, weight gain could come as yet another blow to her body image and self-confidence.

Normal weight gain engages a gain in both fatty and lean tissue. It brought on by chemotherapy, though, involves simply fat. The loss of lean body mass and the gain of body fat are classic of the normal aging process. A woman having chemotherapy ages the equivalent of 10 years over the course of just one year.

A number of researches recommend that obesity is connected to lack of exercise as well. The drop in the level of physical activity might be because of the fatigue, nausea, and pain that go together with breast cancer treatment.

Weight gain might be connected to intense food cravings as well. A number of women have cravings that usually engage sweets and carbohydrates as long as chemotherapy. These foods could lead to obesity, particularly when they’re not eaten in moderation.

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Breast cancer is typically treated with surgery, medicine, and also radiation therapy. Due to enhanced screening techniques, diagnosis at an early stage, and better treatment methods, the number of deaths from the disease has been progressively declining over the past few years. Choices concerning how to treat are based on a mixture of factors that comprise definite information regarding the cancer, your preferences, and also your health.

One specific medicine employed to treat breast cancer, tamoxifen (eg Nolvadex D), has been exposed in an American study to decrease the risk of rising the disease by about 50 per cent in women at high risk of developing the disease.

Tamoxifen, the celebrated drug accredited with slashing breast cancer death rates worldwide, can be eclipsed by a newer medicine that is even more effectual at preventing a reappearance of the disease in women whose tumors were wedged early and eradicated.

Balancing medicine is a group of medicines and practices that might be utilized besides the usual treatments for cancer. Alternative medicine indicates practices or medicines that are employed in place of the standard, or usual, methods of treating cancer. Examples of balancing and alternative medicine are meditation, yoga, and dietary supplements such as vitamins and herbs.

Complementary and alternative medicine does not treat breast cancer, but might assist reduce the side effects of the cancer treatments or of the cancer symptoms. It is significant to notice that a lot of forms of complementary and alternative medicines have not been methodically tested and might not be safe. Talk to your doctor before you initiate any type of complementary or alternative medicine.

A 2008 American study, which came out in the September issue of The International Journal of Radiation Oncology, observed the efficiency of acupuncture in treating women dealing with the side effects of conventional breast cancer medicine.

Though both conventional and acupuncture treatments reduced the negative effects of breast cancer medicine considerably, conventional treatment created negative sides effects while acupuncture treatment gave other advantages.

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Medical malpractice in general happens when your doctor fails to follow suitable and accepted methods for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer symptoms. The resultant holdup in treatment could result in the unnecessary progression of cancer that was otherwise avoidable or minimally treatable. Misdiagnosis by the misreading of tests, or paying no attention to test findings like mammograms could constitute malpractice. The problem in every case is whether the doctor’s negligence caused a holdup in treatment or worse, a needless advancement in the stages of breast cancer.

Early diagnosis via screening with breast examinations and mammograms followed by appropriate treatment can considerably reduce the possibilities of a woman rising invasive breast cancer. Yet, a predictable 39,600 women will die in the U.S. from breast cancer this year. Too lots of women have their diagnosis delayed when the physician and other health care providers in whose hands such women hand over their comfort fail to do proper screening tests, fail to appropriately understand test results, and fail to take needed steps when the disease is supposed. And in too lots of cases the terrible effect is the loss of treatment choices and a considerably lower possibility of survival.

More than one in ten women in the U.S. will be identified with breast cancer at some point in their lives. Yet in spite of the great familiarity doctors should have with the increasingly widespread disease, misdiagnosis or mistreatment of the disease is the root of more medical malpractice assertions than any other disease.

Breast cancer reacts well to early detection and early treatment. Unluckily, too frequently doctors and other medical professionals fail to order tests, misdiagnose, and fail to treat the disease. Such mistakes could give increase to successful medical malpractice assertions. Widespread mistakes consist of failure to:

- detect a clear lump as long as a breast exam
- do a breast exam while treating a patient for other reasons
- arrange a mammogram, x-ray, CT scan, MRI, etc
- categorize a tumor as malignant
- evaluate appropriately test results when tests are done
- inform patient of test results
- command future tests
- acknowledge widespread symptoms

A lot of people deem its misdiagnosis as a case of a ’doctor’ mistakenly labeling breast cancer as another disease or problem, but hardly ever think about late diagnosis or a radiologist’s mammography mistakes as cases of misdiagnosis.

Whether the cause for late diagnosis is inattention, ineffectiveness or the result of a mammography mistake, it could be deemed a case of misdiagnosis. It is not usually known that radiologists are the foremost medical area of expertise sued in breast cancer malpractice cases.

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Breast cancer misdiagnosis happens when a doctor or health care provider does not identify, order necessary testing to follow up on the disease or, as is frequently the case in breast cancer malpractice cases, the radiologist misreads a mammogram.

The effects of breast cancer misdiagnosis could be serious and frequently fatal since early detection is frequently a breast cancer patient’s best expectation of defeating the disease. Discovery of cancer at its later stages enhances the risk of death considerably for lots of types of cancer. The dissimilarity between Stage I and Stage IV drops survival rates by over 80%, in accordance with a number of studies.

Clearly, breast cancer survival rates are powerfully connected with early detection and treatment. It is the second foremost cause of cancer deaths in women nowadays (after lung cancer), but early detection could discontinue the cancer in its tracks. When it is detected early and restricted to the breast the five-year survival rate approaches 100%.

How does it get misdiagnosed? It frequently begins with a radiologist misreading a mammogram. A mammogram is the first line of resistance in screening for it. Unbelievably, a mammogram has a false-negative - that is, the failure to identify a malignant cancer - rate of at least 10%. Why is this? The mammogram-reading skills of general radiologists vary extremely, in accordance with a study. In the study, 75% of radiologists detected, about, 70 percent of the disease that was observable on 100 mammograms. The majority doctors are performing their job splendidly.

Unluckily there are still lots of deaths from the disease every year. These deaths happen where the cancer is extremely vigorous or unhappily in a number of cases where the cancer is not picked up early enough or is misdiagnosed.

When a doctor has misdiagnosed your breast cancer or hasn’t diagnosed it in a well-timed way, there is nothing more significant than looking for acceptable medical care right away. Suing a doctor is most likely the last thing on your mind. However, if that doctor was at error, he or she ought to be held responsible for their acts and you ought to be compensated.

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