Like all other cancers, breast cancer is also divided into various stages for the facilitation of treatment through correct diagnosis. In this article I will highlight some important facts about stage 3 breast cancer. Stages 3C, 3B and 3A are the different subcategories in which stage 3 breast cancer is usually divided. Invasive breast cancer is detected in stage 3A. Usually at this stage, there might be no tumor in the breast. Axillary lymph nodes...
When cancerous or malignant cells start developing in the breast tissues, it leads to the often lethal breast cancer. The two most common life threatening cancers that attack women all over the world and increase female mortality rates are breast cancer and cervical cancer, exactly in the order written. The figures are really astounding because out of every 7 American women, at least one woman will contract breast cancer during her lifetime. In the...
The short form of inflammatory breast cancer is IBC. An invasive type of breast cancer that is highly dangerous and extremely rare and which takes a very short time to spread to the other body parts is known as inflammatory breast cancer. While other types of breast cancers strike women mostly in their middle ages, inflammatory breast cancer is different in that it strikes younger women normally. Usually inflammatory breast cancer is caused when...
Just like other types of cancer, even breast cancer is divided into several stages and sub stages which is known as stage grouping to help gauge the range of the spread of the cancer to other parts of the body and each stage has different survival rates, with the survival rate at stage 0 being the highest and those at stage IV the lowest. Usually if the breast cancer is detected in the early stages of its formation, diagnosed correctly and if treatment...
The central tenet of breast cancer treatment is usually surgery if the breast tumor is localized and is backed up by radiotherapy at times, and chemotherapy and possible adjuvant hormonal therapy with aromatase inhibitor or Tamoxifen. All kinds of post surgery adjuvant therapy treatments have to follow a certain pre set pattern that changes every two years, on the basis of the Swiss health conference or breast cancer summit. A few tests that can...
I know it sounds surprising, but it is not only women who get breast cancer, but even men can get affected by male breast cancer. In countries like United States, at least 1600 men annually get affected by male breast cancer. Symptoms of male breast cancer The symptoms of male breast cancer include scaly and dry nipples or scaly and dry skin of the breast or a red and sore breast, inverted nipples, discharge from the nipples, there might be a swelling...
Breast cancer can be treated through several different types of drugs and in this article I will list a few commonly prescribed drugs. Femara or Letrozole Letrozole is the generic name of this medicine or chemotherapy drug that can effectively treat breast cancer. Positive breast cancer patients who have post menopausal estrogen receptor will benefit from this drug. This aromatase inhibitor prevents the conversion of androgens into estrogen because...
Thanks to the numerous awareness campaigns surrounding breast cancer, people and women have become more aware of this killer disease that is the number one lethal cancer that increases mortality rate in women followed by cervical cancer. There are many risk factors behind breast cancer but the exact causes are not known. One probable cause of breast cancer can be genetic predisposition or mutation of genes or changes in DNA because of which cancerous...
Commonly breast cancer is seen in women, but it is something that affects men as well, in the age group of 60 to 70 years usually and it is called male breast cancer. But women are 100 times more likely than men to get it. A cancerous or malignant tumor growing in the cells of the breast tissue is called breast cancer. There are 4 stages of breast cancer but if breast cancer is detected early, there are high chances of survival and cure, but in stage...
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