The two words “breast cancer” shake all women to the core – more so than any other disease, even though heart disease takes far more lives than breast cancer.
I have to wonder just how many women get unnecessary mammograms? I've had some scares already in my 49 short years and frankly am somewhat hesitant about believing that the high technology today is so wonderful!
Q. I am undergoing treatment for breast cancer at the moment, I am really keen to keep fit during this difficult time as a way of being focused and positive and coming out of this a new me. I am a little unsure as to what exercise plan I should use.
I strategically use humor. I have romance party plan business. I ask ladies to get their friends together so that I can sell them "romance items." Many women are intrigued by the idea but extremely nervous at being embarrassed too.
A person suffering from breast cancer is more often thrown into distress, self pity and depression. Nobody wants to wake up one day with the realization that she is suffering from breast cancer.
Is anyone in your family suffering from breast cancer? Are you worried that you might suffer the disease yourself? Do you know the factors that put you at greater risk of developing breast cancer?
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting women. In the US, about 180,000 women develop it each year. The disease can also occur in men, although cancer of the male breast accounts for less than 1 in 100 cases. The risk of it increases with age, doubling every 10 years.
Breast cancer is caused by the abnormal or uncontrollable growth of breast cells. It has the potential to also spread to other parts of the body. While cancer is almost always caused by an abnormal gene the chances of inheriting it from your mother or father is only 5 to 10 percent.
Every woman runs the risk of getting breast cancer and as she gets older, the chances are greater. The chances of a woman getting breast cancer is 14 percent or one in every eight women, when you consider a lifetime of a woman, assuming she lives up to the age of about 90 years.