Breast Cancer: Symptoms and Stages

Breast Cancer: Symptoms and Stages, Normally, when we heard about breast cancer, what comes in our mind is the risk that women will one day face regardless their age and background. Even though the number is not that many, though, breast cancer symptoms can occur among males. Learning and understanding this condition is not exclusively the demand for females. Thus, recognizing the signs and stages will enable us to react and anticipate spreading as early as possible. Although the symptoms may sometimes be different from one patient to another, general signs can be concluded and observed quite early provided that regular self check is performed.

Common Breast Cancer Symptoms
In most cases, very early level of breast cancer symptoms is often unobservable. When development of abnormal cells like tumor starts growing, then, signs usually occur. Normally, if there is a lump persisting after menstruation in the area of armpit or in the boobs, there is a possibility that the tumor starts developing. For those who are conducting mammogram check in routine arrangement, the advantage of visual detection even before the lump grows can be seen. This explains that after forty years old, where the risks are getting higher to be affected from this health issue, women are encouraged to schedule their mammogram check twice a year. When the lump starts growing, sometimes it is painless but in some other cases it can be prickly.

When is Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM)?

Breast cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in women. Therefore, there are now a lot of communities associated with breast cancer in many countries. When is breast cancer awareness month (BCAM)? October is the breast cancer awareness month.

You may also like to read prevention tips and myths of breast cancer, before continuing!

In the U.S, BCAM is also referred as NBCAM or National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (founded in 1985), which is an annual health campaign to increase and encourage the awareness of this cancer, and get more funds to support more researches for this disease (including causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention). This international campaign is also aimed to support and provide more information for those who have higher risk of the disease or for those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

5 Celebrities with Breast Cancer (Battled It)!

Below are some famous women or celebrities who diagnosed and battled breast cancer, which can be one of our inspirations for ‘breast cancer-fighting’! You may also like to read top myths of breast cancer, before continuing!

Christina Applegate

She was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 36 or in 2008. Well, it is unimaginable for most women when the only one choice is the thought of parting with 1 breast, let alone two! But this is something that was selected by Christina Applegate after the doctor told her that she had breast cancer (even though she was diagnosed with this disease in only one breast).

She said that the selection of mastectomy to decrease the chance & probability of this disease could come back or even spread again!

Top 5 Myths of Breast Cancer

The following are 5 myths of breast cancer!

The risk is only for women who have a family history of breast cancer?

In fact, there are no identifiable risk factors from about 70 percent of women diagnosed with this disease. But your risk may be double if you have sibling, child or parent (‘first-degree relative’) with breast cancer.

Therefore, this means that the risk should not only be directed for a woman with a family history of this disease -- although her risk especially if she has a first-degree relative with this disease may be relatively higher. You may also like to read celebrities with breast cancer!

Breast Cancer: Best Foods to Prevent It

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What are best foods to prevent breast cancer? We all agree that a healthy living is the best choice to keep healthy and fit. But there are a lot of temptations that can make us far away from healthy-lifestyles in this modern living. One of serious diseases that can attack anyone (especially for women) is breast cancer.

You may also like to know some simple prevention tips for breast cancer, before continuing!

Many experts believe that there are some foods and essential nutrients that may be effective enough to reduce your risk of having breast cancer. And the following are some of them!

Breast Cancer: Simple Prevention Tips

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How to lower the risk of breast cancer? Well although you can try with a certain drug to prevent a recurrence or prophylactic mastectomy, but generally there is no actually such thing as the prevention of breast cancer. On the other hand, it is much better to have a few basic of healthy lifestyles in order to reduce and lower your risk of growing this disease. And the following are simple prevention tips with simple lifestyles approaches to reduce the risk of breast cancer.

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The most important thing, don’t forget to get regular screenings (like mammograms) if necessary to make sure that your body will get monitored well, because as well we know that cancer is much easier to treat if you can caught it as earlier as possible.