Essay 1 Breast Cancer
Kaci Weaver
Essay #1: Breast Cancer
February 24, 2014 Have you ever been to a Breast Cancer Awareness basketball game or football game at your school? Many people go to support at those events, but aren’t really sure what breast cancer is all about. Breast cancer is cancerous cells that form in the breast. This paper will tell you about the many symptoms, causes, ways of diagnosis, treatments, and ways of prevention.
There’s many, many signs and symptoms showing you that you may have breast cancer.
Most signs of breast cancer take place on the breast or somewhere in that surrounding area. A lump or thickening that feels different from the surrounding tissues in the breast. Bloody discharge from the nipple or an inverted nipple, and change in size or shape of the breast.
Peeling, scaling, or flaking of the nipple or breast skin, and redding or pitting of the skin over your breast (like the skin of an orange). Infections and cysts are more common when you have developed breast cancer. There’s many other signs and symptoms you can have with breast cancer, almost too many to name.
It really isn’t clear what causes breast cancer. It occurs when breast cells begin growing abnormally. Most of the time it starts with cells in the milk producing ducts. Doctors do estimate that only 5% to 10% of breast cancers are passed through generations of family. The most common breast cancers are breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) and breast cancer gene 2 (BRCA2).
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are usually found in the cells of the breast and other tissues, where they help repair damaged DNA or destroy cells if DNA cannot be repaired. If BRCA1 and BRCA2 are damaged by a BRCA mutation then damaged DNA is not repaired properly, and that increases the risk for breast cancer.
There are number of tests and diagnosis’ for breast cancer. You could get a breast exam where your doctor will feel both of your breasts checking for lumps or abnormalities.
Mammograms or an xray of the breast
Essay #1: Breast Cancer
February 24, 2014 Have you ever been to a Breast Cancer Awareness basketball game or football game at your school? Many people go to support at those events, but aren’t really sure what breast cancer is all about. Breast cancer is cancerous cells that form in the breast. This paper will tell you about the many symptoms, causes, ways of diagnosis, treatments, and ways of prevention.
There’s many, many signs and symptoms showing you that you may have breast cancer.
Most signs of breast cancer take place on the breast or somewhere in that surrounding area. A lump or thickening that feels different from the surrounding tissues in the breast. Bloody discharge from the nipple or an inverted nipple, and change in size or shape of the breast.
Peeling, scaling, or flaking of the nipple or breast skin, and redding or pitting of the skin over your breast (like the skin of an orange). Infections and cysts are more common when you have developed breast cancer. There’s many other signs and symptoms you can have with breast cancer, almost too many to name.
It really isn’t clear what causes breast cancer. It occurs when breast cells begin growing abnormally. Most of the time it starts with cells in the milk producing ducts. Doctors do estimate that only 5% to 10% of breast cancers are passed through generations of family. The most common breast cancers are breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) and breast cancer gene 2 (BRCA2).
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are usually found in the cells of the breast and other tissues, where they help repair damaged DNA or destroy cells if DNA cannot be repaired. If BRCA1 and BRCA2 are damaged by a BRCA mutation then damaged DNA is not repaired properly, and that increases the risk for breast cancer.
There are number of tests and diagnosis’ for breast cancer. You could get a breast exam where your doctor will feel both of your breasts checking for lumps or abnormalities.
Mammograms or an xray of the breast