Breast cancer

Cancer occurs when cells begin to grow uncontrollably. With people having cells throughout their body, this means that you can get cancer anywhere in your body. Cancer can also spread to different areas of your body. Cancer is not a contagious disease. However, cancer can be genetic or it can be by not keeping your body healthy. Cancer normally is a very long process. Sometimes it has a positive outcome and sometimes it has a negative outcome. If it has a negative outcome from cancer, then that…

Understanding Breast Cancer Dianna M Reyes Wichita State University Breast cancer is defined as the uncontrolled growth of breast cells. Cancer happens as a result of mutations, or abnormal changes, in the genes responsible for regulating the growth of cells and keeping them healthy. In a healthy individual, their bodies replace themselves. The new cells take over when the old cells die out. But in a patient with cancer, mutations occurred causing some genes to turn off and others to turn on…

Breast cancer can be generally described as a malignant tumor in breast cells. There are two types of breast cancer. It can either being to form in the milk-producing glands, lobules, or in the ducts of that carry milk to the nipple. Cancer that forms in the lobules is lobular carcinoma while cancer that develops in the milk ducts is ductal carcinoma. The lobules and ducts of the breast are spread throughout the adipose and fibrous tissue that make up the majority of the mass of the breast. The…

develops in the breast, it is classified as breast cancer. Breast Cancer refers to the over cell proliferation (abnormal cell growth) forming in the tissue of a breast and eventually metastasizes (spreads) to different parts to of the body. This disease annually affects women regardless of their culture and ethnicity. In regards to Hispanic women population, breast cancer acts more aggressive in comparison to other ethnicities (Kouri et al., 2010). Hispanic Women diagnosed with breast cancer…

Health Advocacy Breast cancer has a devastating impact on women. In fact, breast cancer leads our nation in mortality related conditions of women aged forty to forty-nine (Up to Date, 2016). Breast cancer advocacy will be selected for this health advocacy campaign and project. This document will review proposed policy enhancements that involve the adoption of mandated high-risk cancer screening, minimization of out-of-pocket expenses, and investments in population-based effectiveness research…

disease called cancer, overtook their bodies. It never occurred to me that my mother would also come in contact with this deadly disease. At that point, I knew something needed to be done, but at that time I was only three years old. I can’t really tell you the story about what I witnessed, because I don’t remember it; but what I can tell you from looking at the videos, photobooks, and my mother’s stories is, God truly had mercy on her sole. She was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer, and had…

was diagnosed with breast cancer, how would you feel? You would likely feel frightened and worried. Breast cancer is a common and possibly deadly form of cancer that affects both men and women. If the cancer is left untreated it can spread to other organs and eventually kill you. It is urgent that people understand how breast cancer forms, knows the stages of breast cancer, be familiar with who gets breast cancer and understand how all of the different ways to treat the cancer to prevent it from…

About 1 in 8 U.S women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. In 2016, an estimated 246,660 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S, along with 61,000 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. All cancers begin in cells; our body has billons of cells. Cancer starts with changes of one cell or many cells. We have the right amount of cell in our body. The cells produce signals to control how much and how often cells divide.…

daughter’s risk of breast cancer. DDT is an insecticide used for keeping away the mosquitoes that carry diseases such as malaria. DDT though, was banned in 1972. The ban in 1972 happened mostly because of Rachel Carson’s bestseller “Silent Spring” which had given people headaches because of the poisonous effects of the chemicals on wildlife, the environment, and human health.The Environmental Protection Agency classifies as DDT as a probable carcinogen (a substance capable of carrying cancer).…

In 2015, the National Cancer Institute released statistics stating that an estimated number 1,658,370 cases of cancer will be diagnosed this year and that in one third of those cases the patient will die (National Cancer Institute). According to the National Cancer Institute, the leading cause of death in America is heart disease, then a close second is cancer, taking an average number of 585,000 deaths per year (National Cancer Institute). The chances are every individual will, in their…