Breast Cancer
By:Norma

Since so many people get cancer, I have chosen to learn more about breast cancer. I chose this type of cancer because I wanted more females and in some cases males to be aware of the fact that a lot of people suffer through this cancer. I want people to be healthy and take care of themselves to help prevent beast cancer. Cancer is deadly and can ruin many people’s life.

The cancer I have chosen is breast cancer. People get beast cancer because it can be an inherited gene. DNA changed when passed down from a parent can increase the risk for developing beast cancer. Certain genes such as BRCA are tumor suppressor. When the genes are mutated they no longer grow at a normal paste and breast cancer is most likely to occur. Hormones seem to be in most cases in breast cancer although doctors don’t quite know yet why. One of the risks to getting beast cancer is exposing skin to strong sunlight. Some of the symptoms of breast cancer include swelling of all or part of a breast, skin irritation or dimpling, breast or nipple pain, redness or thickening of the nipple or breast skin, a discharge other than breast milk, and the most common symptom a lump or mass. The available treatment for this cancer is local treatment which is used to treat a tumor without affecting the rest of the body. Some examples of local treatment include surgery and radiation. Some females have surgery where only a part of the beast is removed; it all depends on the size and place of the tumor. There are many types of surgery to treat breast cancer but they all are performed in different ways. Females are the most affected by breast cancer. The chance of developing breast cancer in a females life is a little less than one in eight (12%).In addition about 40,170 women will die from it and there are over 2.5 million survivors.

Through out all my reasearch the most surprising thing that i learned was the fact that males can also get breast cancer.