Breast health is an important part of our overall health and well-being. Being breast healthy means being breast aware; knowing about breast cancer risk factors; understanding your personal risk of breast cancer; proactive ways to help reduce your breast cancer risk; and being informed about screening for the earlier detection of breast cancer..
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How do you know the signs or symptoms of breast cancer
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How do you know the signs or symptoms of breast cancer
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Breast cancer far the most common non-skin cancer among women. Matter of fact, one in eight women will develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime. But advances in breast cancer treatment mean many women can expect to beat the disease and maintain their physical appearance. But the key word is alertness.
Breast health is an important part of our overall health and well-being. Being breast healthy means being breast aware; knowing about breast cancer risk factors; understanding your personal risk of breast cancer; proactive ways to help reduce your breast cancer risk; and being informed about screening for the earlier detection of breast cancer..
Breast health is an important part of our overall health and well-being. Being breast healthy means being breast aware; knowing about breast cancer risk factors; understanding your personal risk of breast cancer; proactive ways to help reduce your breast cancer risk; and being informed about screening for the earlier detection of breast cancer..
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Re: What are risk factors of breast cancer
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How do you know the signs or symptoms of breast cancer?
Please note, symptoms of breast cancer vary from person to person. Some common breast cancer signs and symptoms include:
1. Skin changes, such as swelling, redness, or other visible differences in one or both breasts
2. An increase in size or change in shape of the breast(s)
3. Changes in the appearance of one or both nipples
4. Nipple discharge other than breast milk (bloody discharge inclusive)
5. General pain in/on any part of the breast
6. Lumps or nodes felt on or inside of the breast
Symptoms more specific to invasive breast cancer are as follows:
1. Irritated or itchy breasts
2. Change in breast color
3. Increase in breast size or shape (over a short period of time)
4. Changes in touch (may feel hard, tender or warm)
5. Peeling or flaking of the nipple skin
6. A breast lump or thickening
7. Redness or pitting of the breast skin (like the skin of an orange)
Please note, symptoms of breast cancer vary from person to person. Some common breast cancer signs and symptoms include:
1. Skin changes, such as swelling, redness, or other visible differences in one or both breasts
2. An increase in size or change in shape of the breast(s)
3. Changes in the appearance of one or both nipples
4. Nipple discharge other than breast milk (bloody discharge inclusive)
5. General pain in/on any part of the breast
6. Lumps or nodes felt on or inside of the breast
Symptoms more specific to invasive breast cancer are as follows:
1. Irritated or itchy breasts
2. Change in breast color
3. Increase in breast size or shape (over a short period of time)
4. Changes in touch (may feel hard, tender or warm)
5. Peeling or flaking of the nipple skin
6. A breast lump or thickening
7. Redness or pitting of the breast skin (like the skin of an orange)
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Re: What are risk factors of breast cancer
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Preventive health is about making your health and well-being a priority.
When you practice preventive health, you take action, informed by evidence-based knowledge or the precautionary principle, to improve your chances of good health and better the odds of stopping disease before it starts.
When you practice preventive health, you take action, informed by evidence-based knowledge or the precautionary principle, to improve your chances of good health and better the odds of stopping disease before it starts.
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Re: What are risk factors of breast cancer
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Breast cancer is a complex disease and treatment recommendations are continually changing. It is the leading cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer mortality. This overview of breast cancer will discuss pathologic features, local and systemic treatment considerations, endocrine therapy, metastatic treatment regimens, and follow-up for optimal breast health.
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