It is extremely important for women to become familiar with their breasts. The early detection of fibrocystic changes (manifest in lumps, nipple discharge, asymmetry) can save your live. Breast cancer is malignant abnormal cell growth in the breast and affects 200,000 women a year in the United States alone. 40,000 of those women die. One in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. This website can help you research and find out more about how to prevent, detect and treat breast cancer. We are not doctors or researchers but we have compiled information and links to help you further your search for information on breast cancer and breast cancer treatments.
Below we will discuss treatments including breast cancer chemotherapy, the most treatment most associated with breast cancer, second only to a mastectomy. But first, what is breast cancer? Most breast cancer develops in glandular tissue. The earliest form of the disease forms solely in the milk ducts. The most common type of breast cancer migrates through the duct walls, invading the breast tissue. When cancer cells enter the bloodstream or the lymphatic system cancer can spread within the body to the lymph nodes, the bones, liver or lungs. The cancer is still labeled metastatic cancer even though it has traveled to other parts of the body. For example when it has migrated to the bone it is not called bone cancer but is till called metastaic breast cancer. Every woman has some chance of developing breast cancer during her lifetime but you should realize that you haven't done anything wrong in your life in order to develop cancer. It is not caused by stress or injury to the breast and you cannot 'catch' or contract the disease from someone else.
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