National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Euromedica General Clinic of Rhodes Island

breast cancer awareness National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Euromedica General Clinic of Rhodes Island
Breast Cancer

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

In histological structure include the following forms 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 a varying levels of tissue and cell irregularities, which allowed to distinguish different level of malignancy. This type of cancer include, particularly, infiltrating ductal and lobular carcinoma, which usually has the structure of scirrhus, as well as Paget's disease.

Causes of Breast Cancer.

The reasons behind breast cancers often are hormonal changes in the body: the entry into menopause, if you find an engaged restructuring with the hormonal regulation of the woman, the ovaries lose their activity, decreased production of progesterone and estrogen, the body goes through, "hormonal crisis." The mammary gland and endometrium (lining of the uterus) are most responsive to these changes, the breast type tissue actually starts to dissolve and become replaced by fat.

Scientifically established how the female hormones estrogen-, plays a vital role inside progression of breast cancer. The excess hormones in the body generates a favorable background for developing the condition. The least active hormones estrogen behave while pregnant and after birth - during breastfeeding. It is proved the birth and prolonged breastfeeding (greater than twelve months) to lessen potential risk of developing breast cancer. On the other hand, abortion result in hormonal "explosion" in a very woman's body that will trigger the development of tumors. So far there is absolutely no consensus regarding the impact for the progression of tumors of hormonal contraceptive drugs, yet it's considered that these drugs reduce the risk of developing breast cancer, but increase the potential risk of developing cancer of the female genital organs, and osteoporosis. In addition predisposition to cancer of the breast can cause harmful environmental factors: environmental surroundings, as well as inflammatory diseases previously deferred breast - mastitis.

In addition, patients having a group of first-degree relatives with breast cancers (mothers and sisters) chance of having a tumor increasing by a lot more than half - familial kinds of cancer.

Benign breast diseases for example fibrocystic breast disease, or fibroadenoz intraduct papillomatosis alone usually do not result in cancer, but simultaneously, create an unfavorable background because of its development.

The reason behind breast cancer may be the connection between radiation, such as irradiation with 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 lead to cancer of the breast and female reproductive system, by having an excess fat inside body, it is an outside endocrine organ and actually starts to actively produce hormones-estrogens, whose action and provokes the development of tumors.

Symptoms of Breast Cancer

There are several forms of the growth of breast cancers:

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

- Diffuse. All of them are very aggressive, grow quickly, almost lightning speed, the tumor with no clear boundaries, "spreading" in the breast and skin. For the first 2 forms are characteristic signs of inflammation: pain in the breast, a bright beautiful red colors with the skin it raises temperature to 39 degrees C. In view of such symptoms often occur, and errors in proper diagnosis of patients treated for inflammatory diseases, which can be named and are described these forms cancer of the breast. When tubular carcinoma cancer of the breast cover being a "skin" of the company's contracting and decreasing in space.

In certain cases, cancer of the breast manifests in the form of metastases inside lymph nodes for the affected side, often doesn't detect the tumor itself - show hidden cancer of the breast.

For small tumors with the breast, any symptoms arise. The most observant women and their husbands can detect tumor site within the gland accidentally, 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 and only a benign tumor. Signs of malignancy other: a decent knot to touch the stone, its surface is uneven, it's stationary or slightly shifted, could be firmly fixed towards the surrounding tissue or skin, usually painless, can reach a substantial size (greater than 3 - 5 cm and quite often 10-15 cm).

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

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