Paget’s disease is evident when the areola is thickened and is becoming darker in color. Usually, the nipple is the same color as the sex organs as well as the lips, but rather when the patient has been diagnosed with Paget’s disease, the area around the nipple is rather dark and often has circles on the skin that laterally surrounds the nipple. Just like any type of polyps that form to be neoplasms, there are five stages of breast neoplasm varying from type zero, type one, and type two, type three, and type four. Depending on what stage the tumor is, surgery is usually performed alongside with options like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and hormonal therapies. “By convention, short-term side effects include those toxic effects encountered during chemotherapy, while long-term side effects include later complications of treatment arising after the conclusion of adjuvant chemotherapy”(Partridge, Burstein, Winer. …show more content…
When the diagnostics are in progress, the doctor checks for lumps, or physical discoloration, inverting of the nipples and discharge from the nipples themselves. So when an individual becomes diagnosed with breast neoplasm, either early or advanced, the breast goes through significant changes molecularly. The events leading to become diagnosed with breast neoplasm may include risk factors, such as never giving birth, pregnancy at a later age, early or late set menarche, smoking, drinking too much alcohol, and/ or lack of exercise As People in third world countries may face this problem. Both women and men are susceptible to getting breast neoplasms, but the majority of women who reside in third world countries, such as Eastern Asia, Western Europe, Africa, South America; More prevalently, North America which has a majority of white women becoming diagnosed with the infamous breast cancer. No matter from what stage the tumor is or the locality of the tumor, this type of cancer has been called the disease of the affluent. “Breast cancer is currently the leading cause of cancer incidence among women worldwide. It accounts for nearly 1 in 4 cases of cancer among women, with 55% of cases occurring in more industrialized countries and 45% in less industrialized countries”(Krieger. 2002). Even though breast cancer can happen in any part of the globe, white women may become diagnosed