Breast cancer. Successfully treating breast cancer means the removal of the cancer or controlling it for a period of time, but because breast cancer is made up of many different sorts of cancer cells, getting rid of all those cells can require all differe
Breast Cancer – One World
Breast cancer is an uncontrollable growth of cells in the breast. Cancer occurs as a result of mutations, in the genes responsible for regulating the growing rate of cells. The genes are in the nucleus of each cell, which acts as the “control room” of the cell. Regularly, the cells in the human body replace themselves through an orderly process of cell growth or mitosis: healthy new cells take over as old ones die out. But over time, mutations can trigger certain genes and “turn off” others in a cell. That specifically changed cell gains the ability to keep dividing without control or regulation, producing more cells just like itself and forming a tumour. Breast cancercan begin to grow in different areas of the breast – the ducts, the lobules, or
sometimes, the tissue in between.
(Breast Anatomy) There are many different ways to treat breast cancer, but the medicine isn't the only thing that one would need to know. One would want to know about the different treatments that help certain people; the implications of the treatments and their effectiveness; the amount of people developing breast cancer and what the possible reasons are and the different beliefs towards the causes of the disease.
Successfully treating breast cancer means the removal of the cancer or controlling it for a period of time, but because breast cancer is made up of many different sorts of cancer cells, getting rid of all those cells can require all different types of cancer treatments such as: surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy. Even though all these treatments have proven to cure breast cancer for millions of people, one treatment may not work for a specific person. At stage 0, There are no signs of cancer cells breaking out of the area of the breast in which they had started or of getting through to or invading normal tissue. At stage 0 there are 3 different options for treating the breast, there is mastectomy; lumpectomy and radiation and lastly there is only the lumpectomy which is only for a limited subset of women. In stage 0, one would not need chemotherapy; treatment to the lymph nodes; targeted therapy or therapy for any other body parts, but hormonal therapy may be needed for people with hormone-receptor-positive cancer. During stage IV, the cancer has spread to the other organs in the body – most often the lungs, bones, liver, or brain. If one has been diagnosed with cancer at this stage, it has already spread to the rest of the body and would need more treatments, than if a person in stage 0. Surgery, radiation or both may be used in the treatment of the breast depending on how many individual factors there are. As opposed to during stage 0, the patient is always recommended chemotherapy. Hormonal therapy is used for people with hormone-receptor-positive cancer. Targeted therapy may be used as a form of treatment that target some specific characteristics of the cancer cells, such as a protein that allows the cancer cells to grow rapidly and in an abnormal manner. Radiation is commonly used to relieve any specific signs/uncomfortable symptoms but depending on the level of the cancer, surgery may be a part of dealing with those specific signs or symptoms.
