Everything About Breast Cancer

There are several websites that publish first hand experiences of cancer patients – their struggles and learnings. These are some ideas a (suspected) breast cancer patient should consider:

- Is an outright operation to remove the lump / mass necessary?
- Find out whether there are available options where an operation is not necessary to have a biopsy.
- Once the lump is verified as cancerous, find out your treatment options.
- Consider alternative medicine if you are not comfortable with traditional radiation and chemotherapy
- Do your research: talk to breast cancer patients and survivors, ask for referrals
- Assert your right to proper overall treatment – you should not be pushed to go through a procedure you are not comfortable with

Read this story to find out how you, too, can get the treatment you deserve.

When cancer has been diagnosed, how do you know if your chances to survive/live are longer enough?

To plan your treatment, your doctor needs to know the extent (stage) of the disease. The stage is based on the size of the tumor and whether the cancer has spread. Staging may involve x-rays and lab tests. These tests can show whether the cancer has spread and, if so, to what parts of your body. When breast cancer spreads, cancer cells are often found in lymph nodes under the arm (axillary lymph nodes). The stage often is not known until after surgery to remove the tumor in your breast and the lymph nodes under your arm.

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医師は、あなたが病気であるか否かに関係なく、すべての女性がこの過程を経るべきであると提案している。では、この検診過程はどのように行われているのか?

症状が現れる前の乳ガン検診は重要である場合がある。検診は医師が早くガンを発見し、治療するのを助けることができる。ガンが早期発見されると治療はよりうまくいく。

医師は以下のような乳ガン検診を勧める可能性がある:

 * 検診マンモグラフィー
 * 胸部の臨床試験
 * 胸部の自己診断

いつ始めて、どのくらいの頻度で乳ガンの検診を受けるべきかは医師に相談した方がいい。

Even if you had breast implants, you should still undergo a regular mammogram. However, you have to get a technician who is experienced in doing examinations on enhanced breasts. These technicians will take the implants into consideration when doing the examination.

Many surgeons also suggest that women perform compression exercises and implant massages. But before you do it, you should make sure that it is the right kind of massage. Doing the wrong kind will displace the implant to the corners of the pocket. A doctor can show you how it is done. You have to continue doing these exercises for life to keep the pocket very flexible.