Breast Cancer Awareness Month: We’ve Come a Long Way Bergen Imaging Center

breast cancer awareness month 2017 Breast Cancer Awareness Month: We’ve Come a Long Way Bergen Imaging Center
Breast Cancer

Among all cancers in females, he takes the first place. In most cases, breast cancer 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, and also cancer of the nipple along with the nipple with the field (Paget's disease with the breast). For the nodular cancers are characterized by the node creating a diameter as high as several centimeters. In some instances, a decent knot, is permeated with whitish layers tissue penetrating to the surrounding fatty tissue, in others - a soft, juicy about the cut, splits easily. Diffuse prostate cancer is roofed to get a considerable distance, the contours with the tumor are marked bad. Sometimes the cancer invades your skin layer and forms around the surface of decaying mushroom formation - a cancerous ulcer. In some instances, the tumor spreads over the surface in the breast and many types of the iron is roofed having a dense shell.

In histological structure will be the following forms of breast cancers:

• noninvasive: intralobular and intraduct;

• infiltrative.

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

Infiltrating (invasive) cancer is seen as varying degrees of tissue and cell irregularities, which permitted to distinguish different degree of malignancy. This type of cancer include, particularly, infiltrating ductal and lobular carcinoma, which usually contains the structure of scirrhus, in addition to Paget's disease.

Causes of Breast Cancer.

The reasons behind breast cancers often are hormonal changes inside the body: the entry into menopause, when there is an active restructuring with the hormonal regulation with the woman, the ovaries lose their activity, decreased manufacture of progesterone and estrogen, our bodies will go through, "hormonal crisis." The mammary gland and endometrium (lining with the uterus) are most responsive to these changes, the breast tissue starts to dissolve and stay replaced by fat.

Scientifically established how the female hormones estrogen-, plays an integral role within the development of breast cancers. The excess hormones within the body results in a favorable background for developing the sickness. The least active hormones estrogen behave in pregnancy and after birth - during breastfeeding. It is proved how the birth and prolonged breastfeeding (more than one year) to cut back the potential risk of developing breast cancers. On the other hand, abortion bring about hormonal "explosion" in a woman's body that may trigger the growth and development of tumors. So far there is no consensus about the impact for the growth and development of tumors of hormonal contraceptive drugs, however it is thought that these drugs reduce the potential risk of developing breast cancers, but increase potential risk of developing cancer in the female genital organs, and osteoporosis. In addition predisposition to breast cancer could cause harmful environmental factors: the environment, along with inflammatory diseases previously deferred breast - mastitis.

In addition, patients which has a family of first-degree relatives with cancer of the breast (mothers and sisters) likelihood of creating a tumor increasing by more than half - familial varieties of cancer.

Benign breast diseases such as fibrocystic breast disease, or fibroadenoz intraduct papillomatosis alone tend not to cause cancer, but concurrently, create an unfavorable background because of its development.

The cause of cancer of the breast could be the results of radiation, like 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 cause cancer with the breast and female reproductive system, with the excess fatty tissue inside the body, it is another endocrine organ and begins to actively produce hormones-estrogens, whose action and provokes the progression of tumors.

Symptoms of Breast Cancer

There are several forms in the growth of breast cancers:

- Nodular form, the most frequent, is seen as an a dense knot of 0.5 to 5 cm or higher, it's seen as a all in the following symptoms;

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

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

For small tumors in the breast, any symptoms arise. The most observant women and their husbands can detect tumor site within the gland by chance, but in the large breast to detect small size hard knot. Revealed a knot may be painful when pressed, round, smooth and agile, this speaks in support of a benign tumor. Signs of malignancy other: a good knot to touch the stone, its surface is uneven, it's stationary or slightly shifted, may be firmly fixed towards the surrounding tissue or skin, usually painless, can reach an important size (a lot more than three to five cm and sometimes 10-15 cm).

Need to assess the surface in the skin over the tumor: the malignant process will likely be observed retraction with the skin, collecting in the folds, wrinkles, an indicator of "lemon peel" - a local swelling from the skin on the tumor, is often a direct tumor invasion to your skin surface, then it is a bright beautiful red colors and sprawl as "cauliflower."

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