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Breast cancer facts:
Breast cancer is the most common cancer now a day?s world-wide, early detection and life style changes are help to control the breast cancer.
- Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women
- 7 breast cancer cases were filed in the year 2007 worldwide
- Australia Europe, north America are evident with highest incidence of breast cancer
- In the last 25yrs the breast cancer cases increased by 30% in the world
- The risk factors of breast cancer can be reduced by
- Breast feeding
- Physical activity
- Stop smoking
- Maintaining normal weight
- Early treatment can increase the survival rate of a person rate by 98%
- Women with a BRCA mutation and who get their ovaries surgically removed can reduce their risk of breast cancer by 50 percent.
- The breast can be prevented by the screening
- The reason for increased risk of developing breast cancer include are:
- Starting of menstrual period at an early age
- Obesity
- Using contraceptives
- Alcohol consumption
- Never having children
- Using hormonal replacement therapy
- Inherited genetic mutation for breast cancer
- In very rare cases, men also can get breast cancer but it is about 1 in 1000men
- Herceptin, a breast cancer drug, scientists have developed and engineered human proteins that led to monoclonal antibodies for the cancer therapy
- According to the NIH, the survivors of breast cancer are at the risk of osteoporosis