The Lump

While some lumps are too tiny to feel, breast self-exam is still a proactive way to detect breast cancer. Furthermore, a clinical breast exam is performed by a health care professional—it is a part of women’s annual checkups, starting at age twenty. Additionally, a mammogram is a special type of x-ray taken to look for abnormal growth in the breast tissue; it is one of the most commonly used tests to detect breast cancer (webmd.com). Doctors also use ultrasound to check whether a breast lump is…

college students returning to America from their study abroad program to Senegal Africa both had visited the hospital for lesions on their persons. Patient 1: A 20-year-old male presented to the emergency department with painful, pruritic, tender red lumps on the bilateral legs of 1 week’s duration. The lesions had developed 1 week after returning from a month long trip to Senegal with a volunteer youth group. He did not recall enduring any sort of painful insect bites or illnesses while…

These lumps can be uneven or hard. Change in size, shape or feeling of the breast or nipple. Also fluids discharge from nipples such as blood, clear to yellow fluids or green, or pus looking. Test and exams that are done are the Breast MRI. These identify the breast lumps or evaluate abnormal changes on a mammogram. Breast ultrasound show solid of fluid filled lumps. The breast Biopsy is different surgical ways they can look. One way…

Hidradenitis Suppurativa is a chronic skin condition/disease that features lumps usually in the armpit or groin, but can appear in many places. There is no cure for this condition, but there are some treatments that may help. It usually begins after puberty and it can last for years, it can also intensify as time goes on (Overview). It is most common for Hidradenitis Suppurativa to occur where there is hair (with oil and sweat glands) and where the skin rubs together. This condition is one…

College Inflammatory Breast Cancer Inflammatory Breast Cancer, or IBC, is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer that is often diagnosed at stage III or IV because unlike most common types of breast cancers, this type does not typically cause a lump in the breast and symptoms are unlike those of other cancer types. This form of breast cancer only occurs about 1% to 5% of all breast cancers but since it is often misdiagnosed with mastitis, an inflammation in the breast, there are no exact…

(American Cancer Society,2017, Para 1) It is also common to have lumps in your breast that are not cancer that could be fatty tissue. “Breast Cancer may start from different parts of the woman breast. Most of the breast cancers can start in the ducts that carry milk to the nipple. Some start in the glands that make breast milk ” (American Cancer Society,2017, Para…

They’re many surgery’s such as Lumpectomy, Modified radical mastectomy ,segmental mastectomy . and a variety of theraphy’s but the most common used to fight breast cancer is chemotherapy . the first sign of breast cancer is when you start feeling a lump in your breast which you can feel or a not normal mamogram . Breast cancer is the most common cancer in woman who are 30 years old or older . Around the 1980’s breast cancer was not so survival but now thanks to the increase of technology our…

number of chromosomes and have the ability to divide indefinitely at a very fast rate. Additionally, they can potentially invade or spread to other parts of the body and the surrounding tissue, a process called metastases, which results in causing lumps to be formed.…

towards the pension each paycheck. The payout one receives depends on how long one worked for the company and the salary. Employees should understand the options of pensions. They have the choice to get payments, which are series of regular payments, lump sum, or combination of the two. The employer hires a firm that the employees can invest to receive pensions after retirement. Pensions are very simple and easy, all one has to do is show up for work. One would automatically be enrolled in the…

my six-year-old Shetland Sheepdog, who I trained in agility, obedience, rally, and minor showmanship. She is pretty much my life, and my best friend. I love her very much, so when I found a firm lump on her tail that was never there before I scheduled an appointment with Doc as soon as I could. The lump felt to be about the size of a marble, and I didn't know what it was, so I took her in. I try not to worry about these things until I know I have a reason to worry, so I just proceeded as…