Symptoms and Treatment of Breast Cancer
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Symptoms and Signs
Early symptoms include a lump usually feels different than the surrounding breast tissue, painless and usually have an irregular edge.
In the early stages, when driven by a finger, a lump can be moved easily under the skin. In later stages, the lump usually adheres to the chest wall or skin around it. In advanced cancer, can form a swollen lump or breast skin ulcers. Sometimes the skin over the lump shrank and looked like an orange peel.
Other symptoms that may be found a lump in the armpit, change size or shape of the breast, an abnormal discharge from the nipple (usually bloody or yellow to green, may also be pus), change in color or texture of the skin on the breast, nipple and areola (dark brown colored area around the nipple), breast looks red, the skin around the nipple scaly, nipples are interested in or feel itching, breast tenderness or swelling of one breast. At an advanced stage may develop bone pain, weight loss, swelling of arms or ulcerated skin.
Eczema or erosion of the nipple. Attracted into the skin or nipple (retraction), pink or brownish to become edema that causes the orange peel, wrinkle and become ulcers. Ulcers enlarged and deep until he could damage the breast. Foul and bloody. Other features is the occurrence of bleeding in the nipple. Pain / pain when the tumor is large and ulcers arise. Then there is enlargement of the axillary lymph nodes, swelling of the arm. Then there was the spread of cancer throughout the body. Advanced breast cancer is very easily identified. Namely the existence of the breast skin is quite extensive. Edema of the arms, far metastases, ulceration of skin, skin edema, skin fixed. The existence of axillary lymph nodes.
Lymph system is one of the main ways to spread breast cancer. Breast cancer cells can enter lymphatic vessels and begin to grow in the lymph nodes. If breast cancer cells have reached the lymph vessels in the armpit (axilaris node), the sign is swelling of lymph nodes in the armpit. When this occurs it is likely that cancer cells also enter the bloodstream and spread to other organs. This can affect cancer treatment options from your doctor.
Nipple discharge. This symptom is an abnormal discharge from the nipple and spontaneous or so-called nipple discharge. Why is this fluid is said is not normal, not least because the normal fluid only out on pregnant women, nursing or taking the contraceptive pill. Characteristic of this fluid, watery bloody fluid, red or brown, out alone without massaged. Out with continuous in one breast. For those of you who have these traits must be alert and see a doctor immediately to prevent the cancer getting worse.
Prevention of Breast Cancer
- Primary prevention. Health promotion is healthy. Namely through efforts to avoid the risk factors above and a healthy lifestyle. Included is also a breast self-examination.
- Secondary prevention performed on women who have breast cancer risk. That is by early detection via screening with mammography is claimed to have 90% accurate. Screening policies for women aged 40 years or older, women who have to refer to screening every year and normal women should refer to screening every 2 years until age 50.
- Tertiary prevention in women who do positive breast cancer. It is important to improve the quality of life and prevent disease complications. It could be surgery, chemotherapy sitostatika. At a certain stage only a symptomatic and alternative medicine.
Cancer Treatment
- Mastectomy or breast removal surgery. Both the total removal of the breast and lumps in the armpit, breast pengankatan alone or partial removal of the sections contained only cancer.
- Radiation is the process of irradiation with X rays and gamma rays at the cancer. It serves to kill any remaining cancer cells after surgery.
- Chemotherapy is the provision of anti-cancer drugs. Both the drug in pill form liquid / capsules or intravenously to kill cancer cells.
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