Malignant neoplasms that threaten life in one or both
breasts called breast cancer. Breast cancer invasive cannot at the same time, which does not spread and little invasive that has the potential to spread.
Ductal carcinoma and Invasive lobular carcinoma are at the same time, if not you can develop for invasive. Ductal carcinoma and carcinoma infiltrating lobular that extends into the wall of the tube and the wall of a lobes respectively.
History of
breast cancer can be traced back to the 1600 BC is considered one of the oldest known tumors. Written Papyrus tumors or ulcers of the breast and healing were mentioned. For a long time there was no cure for the condition. Then, in 1749-1806 the Scottish surgeon Benjamin Bell and French surgeon Jean Louis Petit was the first to remove the affected breast tissues and muscles of the chest behind.
There are different stages that breast carcinoma occurs. They are :
1. The start of the cancer cells.
2. The cancer is either 1 to 2 inches long and spread to the lymph nodes only.
3. The cancer has spread to tissues near the breast.
4. The cancer has spread to other organs of the body.
The ways in which you can start breast cancer are :
1. Surgery: depending on of the stage and cancer, removal of the nodes is necessary to remove the cancer cells. This process is called as the Lumpectomy. In the cases in progress in the Elimination of the entire breast only help the situation and called mastectomy.
2. Systemic therapy used drugs to treat cancer cells damaged in the body. Immunological therapy, chemotherapy and hormone therapy are the types of systemic therapy. Chemotherapy is used before and after surgery. type neo-adyuvante chemotherapy is administered before surgery to shrink the tumor. Adjuvant chemotherapy suggests of surgery to reduce the recurrence. Chemotherapy has side effects. Hormonal treatments include tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors are especially given to premenopausal and postmenopausal to reduce the level of estrogen in the body.
3. Radiotherapy is in gamma-power or x-ray that work blank area needing treatment. These rays are effective to kill cancer cells and avoid repeated from the place where the tumor was. The main objective of this therapy is to avoid a repetition. Radiation therapy is done by linear accelerator. Radiation therapy is usually done of surgery of the breast cancer and essential for the preservation of the breast therapy treatment.
With all these therapies and nothing self-confidence and the problem each can be removed.