Archive for the ‘Breast Cancer’ Category

Treatments of Breast Cancer

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

There are several types of treatment for use in breast cancer. The therapy is applied depends on many factors, which include the stage or stage where the tumor is, whether or not metastasis, the size of the cancer and how cancer cells are. With the classification made by doctors are set to tumor size, lymph node involvement and the degree of metastasis or spread to other organs, if any. The most used is the TNM system created by the American Joint Committee on Cancer. Each letter refers to a characteristic, which is defined by a number:

* T (size), followed by a number from 0 to 4 indicates the size of the tumor, the larger the cancer, the higher the number. (more…)

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Possibility Breast Cancer in Men

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Introduction

Breast cancer is more common in men over 60 years. Few men know and often the diagnosis is made later than in the
women. Therefore, the cancer is usually more advanced when diagnosed and more difficult to treat.

Breast cancer also affects men but in a much smaller percentage (1%) compared to the female population suffer from it. Symptoms are similar to those of that woman, and the prognosis and treatment is the same as theirs and is explained below.

It is generally believed that breast cancer is a disease of women, but about 1 percent of these cancers are in men. Each year are diagnosed with breast cancer about 300 men. Men have a small amount of tissue behind the nipples, and even not being very great as in women, cancer can form in this area also.

The biggest problem is that there is detected a little later then, to be in a few men, you think of other diagnoses before a breast cancer.

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How Many Women with Breast Cancer Disease

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

In Spain are diagnosed each year and currently 15,000 new cases are handled and figures indicating that one of every 16-18 Spanish have breast cancer. In the age group 45-55 years, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women in our country, ahead of lung cancer.

The cure rate in Spain is around 60%. In the case of relapse, the survival estimate is around two 2 years of life, which means that in reality there are women with short survival (less than one year) and in other cases this figure is prolonged over four years.

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Mechanism and Types of Breast Cancer

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Breast cancer is abnormal and disordered growth of cells in this tissue. The breast consists of a series of mammary glands that produce milk after birth, and which are called lobes and lobules.

The lobes are connected by pipes, ducts, which are the leading milk to the nipple during lactation, to feed the baby.
The glands (or lobes) and the ducts are embedded in adipose tissue and connective tissue, which, together with the lymphoid tissue, forming the breast.

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