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Summary – Breast cancer is a highly common cancer in women, that develops in the breast tissue. This article discusses the treatment of breast cancer and the importance of a good cancer care team for prolong relief. Breast Cancer: Treatment Options There are many treatment...
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Cancer. Whenever people think about cancer they only think about the disease, the growth, and the tumors. What society fails to see is the victim behind the disease. People are always so concerned about “curing” the disease the victim of cancer is forgotten. Treating the...
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Breast cancer awareness is an effort to raise awareness and reduce the stigma of breast cancer through education on symptoms and treatment. Supporters hope that greater knowledge will lead to earlier detection of breast cancer, which is associated with higher long-term survival rates, and that...
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My mother said, “I have been diagnosed with breast cancer,” with a frightened voice followed by a facial expression of fear. I replied after a moment of silence in an anxious tone, “Everything is going to be okay don’t worry” and went over to hug...
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Your prognosis is your outlook or your chance of recovery from breast cancer. New and better treatments are helping people diagnosed with breast cancer live longer than ever before. Still, breast cancer may come back or spread to another part of the body after treatment....
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Breast cancer is the second most common cancer, and 232,000 women are diagnosed with it every year (National). For years now, researchers have been trying to find an answer to this unanswered question: Is there a cure to this disease and what is it? Chemotherapy...
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The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis is regarded as a reasonable explanation for the rapid multiplication of cells in the disease. They are self-sufficient cells which seem to have increase tumorigenicity and self-renewal, which allow them to expand more rapidly than normal cells. While the...
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When healthy cells in the breast or ovaries change and grow out of control, they form a mass or sheet of cells called a tumor. A tumor can be malignant (cancerous) or benign (non-cancerous). A cancerous tumor grows and spread to other parts of the...
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The diagnosis of cancer used to mean the patient would die; with the advances in medicine and technology cancer no longer equals guaranteed death. Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of...