Spelled breast cancer the most common cancer attacking women, though men also have the possibility of having this disease with a comparison between the 1000. Until now it is not certain what causes this cancer occurs, but several factors likely are:

1. Age, disease increases breast cancer at the age of teenagers and upwards.

2. Genetically, there two types of genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) that sagat possibly as a risk. If the mother or female relatives of breast cancer, then you likely have an increased risk of breast cancer two-fold compared to the other women in her family there was no single patient.

3. Use of drugs, for example a woman who uses hormone replacement therapy drugs (hormone replacement therapy (HRT)), such as exogenous hormones can cause increased risk of getting breast cancer.

4. Another factor that is suspected as the cause of breast cancer "are not married, married but no children, gave birth to her first child after age 35 years, never breastfeed.SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE BREAST CANCER

For those of you who feel any strange lumps around the breast tissue or even one of the breasts look bigger, better consult a doctor quickly. These bumps are generally painless, ranging from small size that became large and palpable as embedded in the skin. Some cases of breast skin changes around the lump or change in the nipple.

When the lump started to grow, then cause pain (pain) when pressed. If you feel pain in the breast and nipple that does not go away, you should immediately consult a medical. Nipple into the contract, which was pink and finally become brown and even the existence of edema (swelling) around the nipple is one strong sign of breast cancer. Another thing is often out of fluid from the nipple when not nursing your baby. TYPE DISEASE OF BREAST CANCER

Through the examination of the call with mammograms, so this type of breast cancer can be categorized into two parts, namely:


1. Non-invasive breast cancer, cancer that occurs in the bag (tube) milk (a liaison between the alveoli (milk producing glands) and nipples). In the language of medicine called 'ductal carcinoma in situ "(DCIS), to which cancer has not spread to the outside of the network of the milk bag.

2. Invasive breast cancer, cancer that has spread beyond the milk bags and attack the surrounding tissue may even lead to the spread (metastases) assigned to other bodies such as the lymph lympa and others through blood circulation.

HANDLING AND TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER

Handling and treatment of breast cancer depends on the type and stage experienced by sufferers. Generally known someone new breast cancer after stepping up a fairly severe stadium, due to lack of knowledge or shame so late to the abnormalities seen by medicine is facing.

1. Surgery, at which breast cancer is found early, the surgery was the appropriate action. The doctor will take a bump and a small area surrounding the then replace it with another muscle tissue (lumpectomy). Broadly speaking, there are three surgical intervention or surgery such as breast cancer;

- Radical Mastectomy, ie surgical removal of part of the breast (lumpectomy). This operation is always followed by the provision of radiotherapy. Lumpectomy is usually recommended in patients with large tumors less than 2 centimeters and situated on the edge of the breast.
- Total Mastectomy, ie surgical removal of the entire breast, but not the glands in the armpit.
- Modified Radical Mastectomy, ie surgical removal of the entire breast, breast tissue in the sternum, collarbone and ribs, and lumps around the armpit.

2. Radiotherapy (Radiation / radiation), ie the process of irradiating the areas affected by cancer by using x-rays and gamma rays that aims to kill remaining cancer cells in the breast after surgery. These actions have unfavorable effects as the body becomes weak, appetite decreased, the color of the skin around the breast to be black, and Hb and leukocyte count tends to decline as a result of radiation.

3. Hormone Therapy, This is known as 'anti-estrogen therapy' that the system works memblock existing capabilities in the hormone estrogen tends to stimulate the development of breast cancer.

4. Chemotherapy, This is a process of giving anti-cancer drugs in the form of pills or capsules or liquid through the infusion aimed at killing cancer cells. This system is expected to reach the target in the treatment of cancer that has spread goto the possibility of other bodies. Impact of kemoterapy are patients experience nausea and vomiting and hair loss due to the influence of drugs given during chemotherapy.

5. Herceptin treatment is biological therapy is known to be effective against HER2-positive in women who got breast cancer stage II, III and IV with cancernya cell spreading.

DISEASE PREVENTION BREAST CANCER

For those of you who feel there are things that look different in the breast, get it checked out to doctors not to be late. For example the next enlargement, the presence of surrounding breast lump, pain in nipple continuously and so forth as in the caption above signs and symptoms of breast.