Breast Cancer Awareness Day

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Breast Cancer

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

Breast cancer is represented macroscopically nodular and diffuse forms, along with cancer from the nipple and the nipple with the field (Paget's disease of the breast). For the nodular cancers are seen as an the node creating a diameter all the way to several centimeters. In certain cases, a good knot, is permeated with whitish layers tissue penetrating into the surrounding fat, on other occasions - a soft, juicy around the cut, splits easily. Diffuse cancer of prostate is roofed for the considerable distance, the contours of the tumor are marked bad. Sometimes the cancer invades skin and forms on 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 covered with a dense shell.

In histological structure include the following varieties of breast cancers:

• 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 an varying degrees of tissue and cell irregularities, which permitted to distinguish different level of malignancy. This type of cancer include, specifically, infiltrating ductal and lobular carcinoma, which usually has the structure of scirrhus, and also Paget's disease.

Causes of Breast Cancer.

The factors behind breast cancers often are hormonal changes inside the body: the entry into menopause, if you have a dynamic restructuring of the hormonal regulation in 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 with the uterus) are most tuned in to these changes, the breast growth starts to dissolve and be replaced by fat.

Scientifically established that this female hormones estrogen-, plays a key role within the continuing development of breast cancers. The excess hormones within the body generates a favorable background for developing the disease. The least active hormones estrogen behave in pregnancy and after birth - during breastfeeding. It is proved that this birth and prolonged breastfeeding (a lot more than one year) to cut back the chance of developing breast cancer. On the other hand, abortion lead to hormonal "explosion" in a very woman's body that can trigger the development of tumors. So far there's no consensus regarding the impact about the growth and development of tumors of hormonal contraceptive drugs, however it is believed that these drugs reduce the chance of developing cancer of the breast, but increase the risk of developing cancer with the female genital organs, and osteoporosis. In addition predisposition to breast cancer can cause harmful environmental factors: the 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) probability of having a tumor increasing by more than half - familial forms of cancer.

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

The reason behind breast cancer may be the connection between radiation, like irradiation in 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 the reproductive system, with an excess fat within the body, it might be a separate endocrine organ and actually starts to actively produce hormones-estrogens, whose action and provokes the growth and development of tumors.

Symptoms of Breast Cancer

There are a couple of forms with the growth of cancer of the breast:

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

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

In some cases, cancer of the breast manifests within the form of metastases inside lymph nodes on the affected side, often doesn't detect the tumor itself - show hidden breast cancers.

For small tumors with the breast, any symptoms arise. The most observant females and their husbands have the ability to detect tumor site inside gland unintentionally, but in the large breast to detect small size hard knot. Revealed a knot could be painful when pressed, round, smooth and agile, this speaks in favor of a benign tumor. Signs of malignancy other: a good knot to touch the stone, its surface is uneven, it really is stationary or slightly shifted, may be firmly fixed to the surrounding tissue or skin, usually painless, can reach a substantial size (greater than three to five cm and quite often 10-15 cm).

Need to assess the surface from the skin over the tumor: the malignant process will be observed retraction from the skin, buying within the folds, wrinkles, a signal of "lemon peel" - a local swelling from the skin in the tumor, may be a direct tumor invasion to skin surface, then it might be a bright beautiful red colors and sprawl as "cauliflower."

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