Breast Cancer Argumentative Essay

Everyone knows about Breast cancer these days, due to the fact that every day we have seen lots of organizations working for this sole purpose. Every now and then we meet or hear someone struggling with this devastating type of cancer which is more prevalent in women. According to the recent facts and figures from American Cancer Society about the number of deaths from breast cancer in US in 2013, among all ages has gone up to 39,620. This seems like a huge number, but if we look at the mortality trend from 1990-2010, we can see the death rate has been decrease to 34%. So we all know the reason behind this decline i.e. the improvements in our health care system in terms of treatment as well as the early detection of breast cancer. When we talk about the risks of having a breast cancer, we all know that there are some factors which can’t be modified like sex, family history, age, early menarche, late menopause; however …show more content…
Some can halt the growth of the tumor inside our body; some can prevent its spread etc. Today I would like to highlight the benefits of eating pomegranate and its effects on breast cancer. A normal cell has a tendency to divide as many times and then stop by a programmed cell death (apoptosis) when they are no longer needed; however a cancer cell loses its tendency to stop dividing, to attach to other cells, and to die by apoptosis. One of the reasons of breast cancer is the mutation in some genes in our body which are linked to estrogen exposure. Multiple medical treatments have been used so far which were targeted towards the presence of estrogen(ER), progesterone(PR) and Her2/neu receptors on the cancer cells which were used to predict the prognosis of breast cancer treatment. Patients containing these receptors have a good prognosis, while those without have a very poor