Breast Cancer facts

Breast self-examination,

Self-examination of Breasts,

A woman examines her breast.

Breast self-examination (BSE) is a screening method used in an attempt to detect early breast cancer. The method involves the woman herself looking at and feeling each breast for possible lumps, distortions or swelling.

BSE was once promoted heavily as a means of finding cancer at a more curable stage, but large randomized controlled studies found that it was not effective in preventing death, and actually caused harm through needless biopsies and surgery.

Methods

Breast cancer,

Breast cancer facts,

Breast Cancer
Classification and external resources
Mammograms showing a normal breast (left) and a breast cancer (right).

Breast cancer (malignant breast neoplasm) is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas.

Prognosis and survival rate varies greatly depending on cancer type and staging.Computerized models are available to predict survival. With best treatment and dependent on staging, 10-year disease-free survival varies from 98% to 10%. Treatment includes surgery, drugs (hormonal therapy and chemotherapy), and radiation.,

Risk factors of breast cancer,

Risk factors of breast cancer

Risk factors of breast cancer belongs in the field of epidemiology of breast cancer.

Breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is considered to result from multiple environmental and hereditary risk factors.

Although many epidemiological risk factors have been identified, the cause of any individual breast cancer is most often unknowable. Epidemiological research informs the patterns of breast cancer incidence across certain populations, but not in a given individual. Approximately 5% of new breast cancers ar,

Breast cancer screening,

Breast cancer screening

Breast cancer screening refers to testing otherwise-healthy women for breast cancer in an attempt to achieve an earlier diagnosis. The assumption is that early detection will improve outcomes. A number of screening test have been employed including: clinical and self breast exams, mammography, genetic screening, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging.

A clinical or self breast exam involves feeling the bre,

Carcinogenesis,

Carcinogenesis

Carcinogenesis or oncogenesis is literally the creation of cancer. It is a process by which normal cells are transformed into cancer cells.

Cell division is a physiological process that occurs in almost all tissues and under many circumstances. Under normal circumstances, the balance between proliferation and programmed cell death, usually in the form of apoptosis, is maintained by tightly regulating both processes to ensure the integrity of organs and tissues. Mutations in DNA that lead to cancer (only certain mutations can lead to cancer and the majority of potential mutations will have no bearing) disrupt these orderly processes by disrupting the programming regulating the processes.,

Breast cancer patients according to survival status,

List of breast cancer patients according to survival status

Former U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan is a long-term breast cancer survivor.

survival status

This list of notable breast cancer patients includes people who made significant contributions to their respective fields and who were diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives, as confirmed by public information.

According to the United States National Cancer Institute, an estimated 192,370 new cases and 40,170 deaths (women only; no estimates for male victims due to size of sampling pool) would occur in the United 

States in 2009.

Alive

Barbara Allen, American politician, Kansas state senator.

Anastacia, American popular singer.

Christina Applegate, American television