Breast Cancer Why Women Should Be Aware
In the United States this year 180,200 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 43,900 women will die from the disease (Glazer 555). "Breast cancer affects more American women than any other type of cancer" (All 1). Breast cancer is one of the top three cancers of all women above the age of 15; therefore, women need to commit themselves and watch for signs of cancer, or we will always have a problem with this life-threatening disease.Breast cancer needs to be explained before you can fully understand the disease. Breast cancer is a group of cells that have proliferated outside the framework of the normal growth pattern. Normally, healthy cells interact together in a coordinated fashion t o assemble themselves into tissues and organs. Thought the lifetime of an organism, healthy cells live for a time, die and are replaced by new healthy cells according to instructions from the DNA, which is comprised of thousands of genes and is located in the nucleus of all cells. If the gene or genes responsible for forming particular cells is damaged or faulty in some way, then the incredibly precise process of cell growth and division spins out of control and cancer cells arise
Hereditary breast cancer can only account for five percent of breast cancer cases (Glazer 570). Well known risk factors include family history of cancer, DNA, high levels of estrogen, having an abortion, and diet. Weisberg, Edith. The Risk of Breast Cancer Following an Abortion. Newsletter of the NHMRC, Spring 1997. Internet. 2 May 1998. http://www.nbcc.org.au/pages/info.html Continuing the prevention process includes receiving mammograms. It is proven that 30 percent fewer deaths occur from breast cancer in women who received regular mammograms in there 50s than that of women who did not. Although mammography machines remain an imperfect tool for finding cancer, it detects a tumor that has often been growing for five years, spreading cancer throughout the body. Once the tumor is found something can be done about the cancer (Glazer 556). The treatments that do exist for breast cancer often have horrible side effects, but remission rate for the cancer is great (557). Dixon, Michael. Hormone Treatments for Breast Cancer. Newsletter of the NHMRC, Autumn 1997. Internet. 2 May 1998. http://www.nbcc.org.au/pages/info.html
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