02nd April 2009
What is stage 3 breast cancer? An abnormal cell mass that develops when controls of the cell cycle and cell division malfunction is called a neoplasm. However, not all neoplasms are cancerous. Benign neoplasms are strictly local affairs. They tend to be s...
01st April 2009
Detecting signs of breast cancer may be misleading. Some women think that having a lump on your breast or under your arm already means that you have one. Often there are no physical signs that you can see or feel. Some outside signs may include a lump or ...
28th March 2009
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study and treatment of cancer. A medical oncologist is a doctor specializing in the study and treatment of cancer. However, a medical oncologist for breast cancer should first consult with a pathologist...
27th March 2009
Cancer would surely be easier to detect and treat if it were a single entity with a single simple cause. But it is not. Experts agree that there are actually some 200 different diseases that can be called cancers. Lobular breast cancer is one of them.
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27th March 2009
Current cancer treatments—“cut, burn, and poison”—are recognized as crude and painful. Promising new methods focus on delivering anticancer drugs precisely to the cancer and on increasing the immune system’s ability to fend off cancer. There are...
25th March 2009
Breast Cancer can be treated effectively if it is detected early enough. Some 95 percent of breast cancers are discovered by the patient herself when she notices a lump. In all too many cases the discovery is made by chance and the lump may be quite large...
25th March 2009
Nearly everyone knows a friend or relative who has been stricken by breast cancer and who have succumbed to the disease. But there are also now a lot of breast cancer survivor testimonies that you can get from anyone.
Breast cancer remains the most com...
25th March 2009
The type of surgery recommended in any given case of breast cancer has significance for postoperative therapy. Breast cancer surgery may be less extensive or radical where the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes or to other parts of the body; the use of ...
23rd March 2009
Breast cancer stages are based on whether the cancer is invasive or non-invasive, whether the lymph nodes have been affected, whether the cancer cells have already spread beyond the breast, and the size of the tumor.
The purpose of identifying the stag...
10th March 2009
Breast cancer is among the most common type of cancer in the world. Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with the disease but the survival rates are now quite high especially when the disease is detected early. So, what is the treatment breast can...
10th March 2009
Breast cancer is among the most common type of cancer in the world. Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with the disease but the survival rates are now quite high especially when the disease is detected early. So, what is the treatment breast can...
09th March 2009
Perhaps if you’re already experiencing some of the symptoms of breast cancer, you’re more concerned in determining the type of cancer you have. So, what are the different types of breast cancer?
About 5-10% of breast cancer incidents are due to he...
09th March 2009
The reason why many breast cancer patients detect their health condition too late is because they can’t feel any pain. As it becomes worse, some of the symptoms of breast cancer become apparent. If the symptoms are too obvious, you need to consult a doc...
08th March 2009
How dangerous is breast cancer? Well, breast cancer is really dangerous but there are now lots of treatments available. You’re free to choose between conventional treatments and alternative treatments. Through accurate diagnosis, the doctor can provide ...
06th March 2009
Is there such thing as hormone driven invasive breast cancer?
At present, the number of breast cancer patients have drastically reduced in the US and some experts say that this was due to the reduction of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use.
In th...
