The word Breast Cancer makes women worried and it is naturally scary thought for all women. Good news for all women, breast cancer highly preventable in most case. About 5% to 10% of breast cancer caused by inherited genetic factors and about 85 % of breast cancer caused by eating cancer-causing foods, environmental toxin, and mental stress and depression. Treatments will keep you better, but you must follow some tips and avoid some factors that affect your breast. Make you be honest and prevent breast cancer.
Breast cancer is cancer that develops in breast cells. Typically, the cancer forms in either the lobules or the ducts of the breast. Lobules are the glands that produce milk, and ducts are the pathways that bring the milk from the glands to the nipple. Cancer can also occur in the fatty tissue or the fibrous connective tissue within your breast.
Don’t Smoke and Don’t Take Alcohol
We know smoking is the dangers for overall health, it caused a number of diseases, and especially it’s the effect women breast in younger’s. If you do smoking then must knowing the all the problems that are related to smoking, that encourage to quit smoking. We know smoking is the habit that’s very hard to break, but it’s not impossible. You can quit smoking with the help of medicine. Ask your doctors about these pills, it might be right for you. If you take alcohol in huge amount then you must stop or quit it. If you take occasionally then it’s ok.
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is a way to make your baby healthy, but that’s not only one benefit. It reduces the risk of breast cancer, especially if you a breastfeeding to your baby around 1 year and it provide you additional protection. Who breastfeeding for less than a year? It gives low benefits for your health and your baby health too.
Check Your Weight and Take More Nutritious
A healthy diet can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Take balanced diet and lots of fruits, especially take kiwi and avocado. Maintain weight is a big challenge with you. Overweight caused many diseases such as heart diseases, diabetes and some type of cancer. Overweight in women after menopause that increases the risk of breast cancer.
Avoid Hormone Replacement Therapy
Menopausal hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer. Studies show they have a mixed effect on health, increasing the risk of some diseases and lowering the risk of others, and both estrogen only hormones and estrogen-plus-progestin hormones increase the risk of breast cancer.
Reduce the Toxins around You
In Daily Routine life we exposed to the toxin in form of water, food, soil, natural beauty products, and air. Make your home toxin-free, reducing your exposure to Wi-Fi and cell phone electro pollution.
Used These Things in Limit
- Skincare Product
- Household cleaning products
- Canned Food
- Use essential oils
- Avoid plastics
Risk factors for breast cancer
Some risk factors can’t be avoided, such as family history. Other risk factors, such as smoking, you can change. Risk factors for breast cancer include:
- Age. Your risk for developing breast cancer increases as you age. Most invasive breast cancers are found in women over age 55.
- Drinking alcohol. Drinking excessive amounts of alcohol raises your risk.
- Having dense breast tissue. Dense breast tissue makes mammograms hard to read. It also increases your risk of breast cancer.
- Gender. Women are 100 times more likely to develop breast cancer than men.
- Genes. Women who have the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations are more likely to develop breast cancer than women who don’t. Other gene mutations may also affect your risk.
- Early menstruation. If you had your first period before age 12, you have an increased risk for breast cancer.
- Giving birth at an older age. Women who don’t have their first child until after age 35 have an increased risk of breast cancer.
- Hormone therapy. Women who took or are taking postmenopausal estrogen and progesterone medications to reduce their signs of menopause symptoms have a higher risk of breast cancer.
- Inherited risk. If a close female relative has had breast cancer, you have an increased risk for developing it. This includes your mother, grandmother, sister, or daughter. If you don’t have a family history of breast cancer, you can still develop breast cancer. In fact, the majority of women who develop it have no family history of the disease.
- Late menopause start. Women who do not start menopause until after age 55 are more likely to develop breast cancer.
- Never being pregnant. Women who never became pregnant or never carried a pregnancy to full-term are more likely to develop breast cancer.
- Previous breast cancer. If you have had breast cancer in one breast, you have an increased risk of developing breast cancer in your other breast or in a different area of the previously affected breast.
Breast cancer stages
Breast cancer can be divided into stages based on how severe it is. Cancers that have grown and invaded nearby tissues and organs are at a higher stage than cancers that are still contained to the breast. In order to stage a breast cancer, doctors need to know:
- if the cancer is invasive or noninvasive
- how large the tumor is
- whether the lymph nodes are involved
- if the cancer has spread to nearby tissue or organs
Breast cancer has five main stages: stages 0–5.
Stage 0 breast cancer
Stage 0 is DCIS. Cancer cells in DCIS remain confined to the ducts in the breast and have not spread into nearby tissue.
Stage 1 breast cancer
There are two types of stage 1 breast cancer:
- Stage 1A: The primary tumor is 2 centimeters wide or less and the lymph nodes are not affected.
- Stage 1B: Cancer is found in nearby lymph nodes, and either there is no tumor in the breast, or the tumor is smaller than 2 centimeters.
Stage 2 breast cancer
Stage 2 breast cancers are also divided into two categories:
- Stage 2A: The tumor is smaller than 2 centimeters and has spread to 1–3 nearby lymph nodes, or it’s between 2 and 5 centimeters and hasn’t spread to any lymph nodes.
- Stage 2B: The tumor is between 2 and 5 centimeters and has spread to 1–3 axillary (armpit) lymph nodes, or it’s larger than 5 centimeters and hasn’t spread to any lymph nodes.
Stage 3 breast cancer
There are three main types of stage 3 breast cancer.
- Stage 3A: This stage can have several types of cancer:
- The cancer has spread to 4–9 axillary lymph nodes or has enlarged the internal mammary lymph nodes, and the primary tumor can be any size.
- The tumor is bigger than 5 centimeters and small groups of cancer cells are found in the lymph nodes.
- Tumors are greater than 5 centimeters and the cancer has spread to 1–3 axillary lymph nodes or any breastbone nodes.
- Stage 3B: A tumor has invaded the chest wall or skin and may or may not have invaded up to 9 lymph nodes.
- Stage 3C: Cancer is found in 10 or more axillary lymph nodes, lymph nodes near the collarbone, or internal mammary nodes.
Stage 4 breast cancer
Stage 4 breast cancer can have a tumor of any size, and its cancer cells have spread to nearby and distant lymph nodes, as well as distant organs.
The testing your doctor does will determine the stage of your breast cancer, which will affect your treatment. Find out how different breast cancer stages are treated.
Metastatic breast cancer
Metastatic breast cancer is another name for stage 4 breast cancer. It’s breast cancer that has spread from your breast to other parts of your body, such as your bones, lungs, or liver.
This is the most serious type of breast cancer, and it requires immediate treatment. Your oncologist (cancer doctor) will create a treatment plan with the goal of stopping the growth and spread of the tumor, or tumors.
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