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| Facts About Breast Cancer |
While the flourishing Pink Ribbon crusade to raise awareness of BREAST CANCER and the research has taught a widening knowledge of the disease in the United States, some of the following information you must know are :
• 40% women discover a breast lump & 80 % benign.
• Breast Cancer develop in the age of 50 during the lifetime of a women.
• Cancer is the main cause of death nowadays. It increases very frequently weather it may be breast cancer, lung cancer, heart cancer.
• Breast Cancer mostly occurs in a family where there is no past of cancer(85% of women breat cancer occurs by this reason)
• 35% of women who had cancer removed by the surgeries without radiations if found in the early stage else it may found after some years and removed by the radiations which will be difficult to handle in an old stage.
• Cancer risk increases in a family where somebody had suffered from it in the past.
• Breast cancer is common in women but it is 100 times more in men and even in pets.
• As regards 60 percent of breast cancers are estrogen-receptor positive or sensitive to estrogen. This type of breast cancer responds glowing to hormone therapy such as Femara (letrozole).
• According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 70 % of women who are able for the reconstruction of breast are not informed.
• In the United States about 39 million women go through mammograms each year.
• According to the ratio, 40,000 American women die from breast cancer every year.
• In the memorial time, the number of cancer survivors was more than the population of the United States (more than 3 milli breast cancer survivors in the US in 2011).
• Last but not the least, as breast cancer research going on and breast cancer treatments develop, much of the news is encouraging. There has been an detonation of live-saving treatments and cancer medications during the past few years.
• And the attitude towards breast cancer care is now one of hope and optimism.
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