National Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2013

breast cancer awareness National Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2013
Breast Cancer

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

Breast cancer is represented macroscopically nodular and diffuse forms, as well as cancer with the nipple and the nipple from the field (Paget's disease with the breast). For the nodular cancers are seen as the node developing a diameter as high as several centimeters. In some instances, a decent knot, is permeated with whitish layers tissue penetrating into the surrounding dimply skin, on other occasions - a soft, juicy for the cut, splits easily. Diffuse prostate type of cancer is included for any considerable distance, the contours of the tumor are marked bad. Sometimes the cancer invades your skin and forms about the surface of decaying mushroom formation - a cancerous ulcer. In certain cases, the tumor spreads over the surface in the breast and all the iron is roofed having a dense shell.

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

• noninvasive: intralobular and intraduct;

• infiltrative.

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

Infiltrating (invasive) cancer is seen as a varying degrees of tissue and cell irregularities, which able to distinguish different degree of malignancy. This type of cancer include, especially, infiltrating ductal and lobular carcinoma, which usually has the structure of scirrhus, and also Paget's disease.

Causes of Breast Cancer.

The causes of breast cancers often are hormonal changes within the body: the entry into menopause, should there be an engaged restructuring with the hormonal regulation in the woman, the ovaries lose their activity, decreased production of progesterone and estrogen, our bodies is going through, "hormonal crisis." The mammary gland and endometrium (lining in the uterus) are most attentive to these changes, the breast tissue actually starts to dissolve and be replaced by fat.

Scientifically established that the female hormones estrogen-, plays a key role inside the growth and development of cancer of the breast. The excess hormones within the body produces a favorable background for developing the illness. The least active hormones estrogen behave while pregnant and after birth - during breastfeeding. It is proved that this birth and prolonged breastfeeding (a lot more than 12 months) to reduce potential risk of developing cancer of the breast. On the other hand, abortion result in hormonal "explosion" in the woman's body that will trigger the progression of tumors. So far there isn't any consensus about the impact for the continuing development of tumors of hormonal contraceptive drugs, but it's thought that these drugs reduce the potential risk of developing breast cancer, but increase the risk of developing cancer in the female genital organs, and osteoporosis. In addition predisposition to breast cancers may cause harmful environmental factors: environmental surroundings, along with inflammatory diseases previously deferred breast - mastitis.

In addition, patients with a family of first-degree relatives with breast cancers (mothers and sisters) probability of creating a tumor increasing by more than half - familial types of cancer.

Benign breast diseases like fibrocystic breast disease, or fibroadenoz intraduct papillomatosis alone tend not to bring about cancer, but as well, create an unfavorable background for the development.

The cause of breast cancers will be the connection between radiation, such as irradiation of 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 result in cancer in the breast and female reproductive system, having an excess fatty tissue inside the body, it might be a separate endocrine organ and begins to actively produce hormones-estrogens, whose action and provokes the growth and development of tumors.

Symptoms of Breast Cancer

There are many forms of the growth of breast cancer:

- Nodular form, the most typical, is seen as an a dense knot of 0.5 to five cm or more, it can be seen as a all in the following symptoms;

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

In some instances, breast cancer manifests within the form of metastases inside the lymph nodes for the affected side, often ceases to detect the tumor itself - show hidden breast cancers.

For small tumors with the breast, any symptoms arise. The most observant as well as their husbands are able to detect tumor site within the gland accidentally, but inside a large breast to detect small size hard knot. Revealed a knot could be painful when pressed, round, smooth and agile, this speaks for a benign tumor. Signs of malignancy other: a decent knot to touch the stone, its surface is uneven, it can be stationary or slightly shifted, might be firmly fixed for the surrounding tissue or skin, usually painless, can reach a substantial size (a lot more than 3 - 5 cm and sometimes 10-15 cm).

Need to evaluate the surface from the skin within the tumor: the malignant process will likely be observed retraction in the skin, buying within the folds, wrinkles, an indication of "lemon peel" - a local swelling with the skin on the tumor, might be a direct tumor invasion to the skin surface, then it will become a bright beautiful red colors and sprawl as "cauliflower."

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