cancer killer and the number one cancer in females ages 15 to 54. On average if a woman

gets this disease, their life expectancy drops nineteen and a half years. This cancer is within

the top three cancers of all women above the age of 15, and comprises 6% of all health

care costs in the U.S. totaling an astounding 35 billion dollars a year. An average woman

is said to have a one in thirty chance of getting the cancer, but if that person had family

history of the disease, their chances have been measured up to a one in six chance. 69

percent of African American women survive from it, and there are predicted to be nearly

two million new cases reported this year in the U.S. The disease is breast cancer.

Breast cancer is a group of rapidly reproducing, undifferentiated cells in the area of

the breast in women. The earliest changes occur in the epithelial cells of the terminal end

buds (TEB) of the breast milk ductal system. While the outlining steps of breast cancer are

unknown, the cells in the breast trigger a reaction of cell reproduction. These new cancer

cells form tumors. If cancer cells are active or are considered malign,

awkward feeling in the chest area. Other complications that result from this cancer and

Women with the drug were less likely to develop cancer of the breast, but they were more

follow up from 1993 to 1995, 4051 women had breast cancer. Out of those cancer

dependant upon the growth of blood vessels to nurture the cancer cells. New drugs are

preventative mastectomies. Some surgeons feel that if the breast is fairly lumpy, and the

Breast cancer during that period could also be hard to detect because of the rapidly

dealing with the lactating in women is breast cancer during pregnancy.

mammography, there are many critics of that procedure. In a cancer study conducted by

Four levels were accounted for, and the research was tallied. The risk for getting cancer in

human's whole life diet. Therefore, it is much easier to compare cultures of peoples which

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