breast cancer. It is the number two cancer killer among females ages 15 to 54.

On average if a woman gets this disease, their life expectancy drops

drastically. This cancer is within the top three cancers of all women above

the age of 15, and comprises a great amount of all health care costs in the

U.S. totaling an astounding 37 billion dollars a year in direct medical costs.

An average woman is said to have a one in nine chance of getting the cancer,

but if that person had family history of the disease, his or her chances have

been measured up to a one in six chance. Sixty-nine 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. (Breast Cancer Key

Breast cancer is a group of rapidly reproducing,

undifferentiated cells in the area of the breast in men and women. The

earliest changes occur in the epithelial cells of the terminal end buds (TEB)

of the breast milk ductal system. While the progressive steps of breast cancer

are unknown, the cells in the breast trigger a reaction of cell reproduction.

community that while there are definite environmental contributors to cancer,

one point of the attempt to cure breast cancer, but it is extremely important

breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women, over 80% of cancer

but had no apparent familial history of it. Thus the scientists concluded that

January 18, 1996. "Guidelines for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer." The

no evidence links estrogen levels over an extended time to the risk of breast

area houses the lobules and ducts and is the area in which milk is produced.

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