A breast cancer journey

breast cancer awareness month 2017 A breast cancer journey
Breast Cancer

Among all cancers in females, he takes consumers. In most cases, cancer of the breast develops inside presence of precancerous changes. This is primarily a benign mammary dysplasia and papilloma ducts.

Breast cancer is represented macroscopically nodular and diffuse forms, in addition to cancer from the nipple and the nipple with the field (Paget's disease in the breast). For the nodular cancers are characterized by the node having a diameter up to several centimeters. In some instances, a decent knot, is permeated with whitish layers tissue penetrating in the surrounding fat, in others - a soft, juicy about the cut, splits easily. Diffuse cancer of the prostate is covered to get a considerable distance, the contours from the tumor are marked bad. Sometimes the cancer invades your skin layer and forms for the surface of decaying mushroom formation - a cancerous ulcer. In some instances, the tumor spreads across the surface of the breast and all sorts of the iron is included using a dense shell.

In histological structure will be the following types of breast cancer:

• noninvasive: intralobular and intraduct;

• infiltrative.

Noninvasive cancer of the breast might be intralobular (lobular carcinoma in situ), and intraduct (ductal carcinoma in situ).

Infiltrating (invasive) cancer is seen as varying examples of tissue and cell irregularities, which able to distinguish different level of malignancy. This type of cancer include, in particular, infiltrating ductal and lobular carcinoma, which usually gets the structure of scirrhus, and also Paget's disease.

Causes of Breast Cancer.

The factors behind cancer of the breast often are hormonal changes within the body: the entry into menopause, if you have an energetic restructuring of the hormonal regulation in the woman, the ovaries lose their activity, decreased creation of progesterone and estrogen, one's body will go through, "hormonal crisis." The mammary gland and endometrium (lining of the uterus) are most responsive to these changes, the breast tissue begins to dissolve and turn into replaced by fat.

Scientifically established how the female hormones estrogen-, plays a key role in the development of breast cancers. The excess hormones in the body produces a favorable background for developing the disease. The least active hormones estrogen behave while pregnant and after birth - during breastfeeding. It is proved the birth and prolonged breastfeeding (a lot more than 1 year) to relieve the chance of developing cancer of the breast. On the other hand, abortion result in hormonal "explosion" in a woman's body that could trigger the continuing development of tumors. So far there isn't any consensus in regards to the impact about the continuing development of tumors of hormonal contraceptive drugs, but it's belief that these drugs reduce the potential risk of developing breast cancers, but increase potential risk of developing cancer with the female genital organs, and osteoporosis. In addition predisposition to breast cancer may cause harmful environmental factors: the environment, along with inflammatory diseases previously deferred breast - mastitis.

In addition, patients having a family of first-degree relatives with breast cancers (mothers and sisters) chance of making a tumor increasing by greater than half - familial varieties of cancer.

Benign breast diseases including fibrocystic breast disease, or fibroadenoz intraduct papillomatosis alone do not lead to cancer, but simultaneously, create an unfavorable background due to the development.

The cause of breast cancers may be the connection between radiation, such as irradiation from the chest for other diseases (lung tumors, the lymphatic system), prolonged and frequent chest X-ray studies on inflammatory diseases or pulmonary tuberculosis.

Constitutional obesity can cause cancer in the breast and female reproductive system, with the excess dimply skin within the body, it will become an outside endocrine organ and begins to actively produce hormones-estrogens, whose action and provokes the continuing development of tumors.

Symptoms of Breast Cancer

There are many forms in the growth of cancer of the breast:

- Nodular form, the most common, is seen as a a dense knot of 0.5 to cm or even more, it really is seen as an all from the following symptoms;

- Diffuse. All of them are very aggressive, grow quickly, almost lightning speed, the tumor without any clear boundaries, "spreading" with the breast and skin. For the initial two forms are characteristic signs and symptoms of inflammation: pain in the breast, a bright red colorization from the skin it raises body's temperature to 39 degrees C. In view of such symptoms often occur, and errors in diagnosing patients treated for inflammatory diseases, which are named and so are known these forms breast cancers. When tubular carcinoma breast cancers cover being a "skin" of its contracting and decreasing in size.

In certain instances, breast cancer manifests in the form of metastases inside the lymph nodes on the affected side, often fails to detect the tumor itself - show hidden breast cancer.

For small tumors from the breast, any symptoms arise. The most observant females and their husbands have the ability to detect tumor site inside gland accidentally, but in a large breast to detect small size hard knot. Revealed a knot might be painful when pressed, round, smooth and agile, this speaks in support of a benign tumor. Signs of malignancy other: a tight knot to touch the stone, its surface is uneven, it's stationary or slightly shifted, can be firmly fixed towards the surrounding tissue or skin, usually painless, can reach a significant size (over 3 to 5 cm and sometimes 10-15 cm).

Need to assess the surface of the skin on the tumor: the malignant process is going to be observed retraction with the skin, buying in the folds, wrinkles, an indication of "lemon peel" - an area swelling in the skin on the tumor, might be a direct tumor invasion to your skin layer surface, then it might be a bright beautiful red colors and sprawl as "cauliflower."

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