It is the number two cancer killer and the number one cancer in females ages 15 to 54

(Haynes 14). On average if a woman gets this disease, their life expectancy drops nineteen

and a half years (22). "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," (25). 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 (32). Their chances

have been measured up to a one in six chance, they are predicted to be nearly two million

new cases reported this year in the U.S.(38). "Breast cancer will strike close to 200,000

women each year in the U.S.," many women will go through difficult periods both physical

and mental, but there are various treatments to help fight this disease and save their lives

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

of the breast in women. While the outlining steps of breast cancer are unknown, the cell in

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

chemotherapy. The type of surgery really has its basis on the sizeof the tumor. A

and minerals including A, C, and E help to fight cancer says F. de Ward, a cancer

untreated" (41). Generally, if a lump is smaller than one centimeter, it is considered

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