Breast cancer awareness and prevention
Introduction:
Breast cancer is the main cause of death among women, because of no
knowledge or ignoring the symptoms, and daniel the seriousness of the problem. Each
woman must take care of herself and understand the importance of check-ups to
prevent the disease from occurring or identify the disease in the early stage
that can be treated. Each year all countries celebrate breast cancer awareness
in the month of October and increase awareness of the disease.
The sign and symptoms of breast cancer:
The sign and symptoms of breast cancer as follows:
1- The breast size and shape changed
2- Painful breast area and increased with touching
3- The nipple can have unusual milk discharge with blood
4- The development of lump underarm pit
The risk factors of breast cancer:
There are many risk factors that are modifiable and nonmodifiable risk
factors.
The nonmodifiable risk factors are:
1- Women are more susceptible to have the disease than men.
2- The age of the women that being older than 50 years
3- Hereditary and genetic factors.
4- Having a history of breast cancer
The modifiable risk factors:
1- Being obese or overweight.
2- Low activity and exercise
3- Not breastfeeding the baby
4- Eating non-healthy diet
5- Smoking and alcohol consumption
6- Taking birth control medications
Prevention of breast cancer:
There are many ways to prevent the occurrence
of breast cancer mainly the modifiable risk factors must be managed and
prevented.
1-
Maintain
a healthy weight and check the weight regularly
2-
Be active
physically and exercise regularly
3-
Eat a
healthy diet with increased fruits and vegetables also the anti-oxidant diet is
helpful in reducing the risk of breast cancer.
4-
Stop
smoking and alcohol consumption
5-
If you
delivered breastfeed the baby and don’t use artificial milk
6-
Avoid
taking birth control medication that affects the body’s hormones and can cause
breast cancer
7-
Regular
check-ups and doing mammograms can reduce the risk of breast cancer or early
recognition of the disease.
The treatment of breast cancer:
Mostly the treatment of breast
cancer in early recognition that the removal of the limp by surgery. But there
were many types of treatments used for breast cancer that was:
1-
Chemotherapy
using anti-cancer medications to kill the carcinoma cells
2-
Radiotherapy
by using radiation to minimize the size of the cancer cells and destroy it.
3-
Hormonal
treatment that can affect the cancer cells
4-
Targeted
therapy for the targeted cancerous cells
These therapies have been used for the
treatment of breast cancer but in this stage of therapy, the patient may need psychological
support because of hard treatment.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, breast cancer disease
is a disease that can cause many physical, psychological, and physiological impacts
on the human being so prevention is better than cure and early recognition is better
than late identification. If the person has been affected, all people around
the patient must support him during this period.