Symptoms Of Male Breast Cancer
Published on Mar 23 2010, in the categories: breast cancer, facts, prevention, treatment, Ways of detection
Though far less common than in women, even if it looks incredible ,it is really possible for men to develop breast cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that there are about 2000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in men every year and about 450 men die annually from breast cancer. Breast cancer in men account for about 1 percent of all breast cancer cases.
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Most breast cancer in men are caused of benign abnormalities (non cancerous) such as gynecomastia which is a non cancerous growth tissue. Certainly, men, same as women, should report any changes what appear in their body and should made the clinical evaluation. Male breast cancer is not much different then women breast cancer; the symptoms of male breast cancer may include swelling, a breast lump, nipple retraction, skin dimpling, redness or scaling of the skin or nipple, but also nipple discharge.
You know that men have breast tissue, same as women have. Men and women have a small breast tissue with just a few ducts under the nipple and areola, but this is only until puberty because when the girl are reaching puberty, the ovaries produces hormones which cause the breast ducts to grow and cause the lobules, which are the glands that produce milk, but when it comes about a men to puberty, it is the opposite: the testicles produce hormones that are preventing further breast tissue growth.
Men have much less breast tissue than women and because of this, any abnormalities, in the most cases, are easier to find on men than on women.
However, being so less common in men, men ignore the signs of breast cancer believing they are caused by infection or some other cause, because they believe that only women can have this disease but there are also other kind of men who are shamed to find a breast lump and they avoid clinical examination.
Because they have less breast tissue than women have, the tumor does not need to grow much to see something is wrong and the men who experience signs of any kind, they should go to doctor. Men should know that the most often breast abnormality seen is a non cancerous (benign) and this is called gynecomastia which is an increase in the amount of the breast tissue; in teenage boys, the gynecomastia is more common than it is to older men and it is related to changes in the hormone balance.
The treatment for the men who have been diagnosed with this disease, will depend on a number of factors, same as in women breast cancer. The factors may depend of the location or the size of the tumor, the stage of cancer, but it will depend also of the other laboratory test results.
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Most breast cancer in men are caused of benign abnormalities (non cancerous) such as gynecomastia which is a non cancerous growth tissue. Certainly, men, same as women, should report any changes what appear in their body and should made the clinical evaluation. Male breast cancer is not much different then women breast cancer; the symptoms of male breast cancer may include swelling, a breast lump, nipple retraction, skin dimpling, redness or scaling of the skin or nipple, but also nipple discharge.
You know that men have breast tissue, same as women have. Men and women have a small breast tissue with just a few ducts under the nipple and areola, but this is only until puberty because when the girl are reaching puberty, the ovaries produces hormones which cause the breast ducts to grow and cause the lobules, which are the glands that produce milk, but when it comes about a men to puberty, it is the opposite: the testicles produce hormones that are preventing further breast tissue growth.
Men have much less breast tissue than women and because of this, any abnormalities, in the most cases, are easier to find on men than on women.
However, being so less common in men, men ignore the signs of breast cancer believing they are caused by infection or some other cause, because they believe that only women can have this disease but there are also other kind of men who are shamed to find a breast lump and they avoid clinical examination.
Because they have less breast tissue than women have, the tumor does not need to grow much to see something is wrong and the men who experience signs of any kind, they should go to doctor. Men should know that the most often breast abnormality seen is a non cancerous (benign) and this is called gynecomastia which is an increase in the amount of the breast tissue; in teenage boys, the gynecomastia is more common than it is to older men and it is related to changes in the hormone balance.
The treatment for the men who have been diagnosed with this disease, will depend on a number of factors, same as in women breast cancer. The factors may depend of the location or the size of the tumor, the stage of cancer, but it will depend also of the other laboratory test results.
How To Check For Breast Cancer
Published on Mar 11 2010, in the categories: breast cancer, Useful Info, Ways of detection
Your guide for self-examination of the breasts - Why? Because the self-examination is essential in a woman’s health because it allows an early detection of any cancer. The specialists teach us how we can examine our breasts. If it is diagnosed in an early stage (stage I), the breast cancer is curable, often without sacrificing the breast. The problem is how to diagnose it in such a phase, when it does not hurt and does not create any discomfort.
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That is why the self-examination of the breasts remains the hand method, thru which the woman can detect some alarm signals, in which case she should go to the doctor urgently because and I said before, the disease can be cured if it is diagnosed in an early stage.
When? The self-examination of the breasts must be made once with the advent of the first menstruation of the life of a young woman. The doctors are drawing our attention to: The structure of the mammary gland varies both with age and the menstrual cycle. That is why it is so important that this regularly (monthly) self-examination of the breasts to be made at the fifth day from the menstruation debut, when the volume of the mammary glands is minimal and facilitates the detection of a suspect node.
The self-examination of the breasts involves several simple steps.
1. Sit in front of a mirror with your naked bust. Lift your arm overhead, the opposite arm of the breast that you want to examine. (The main alarm is the presence of a 1 cm nodule in the mammary gland structure. If it is larger the 1 cm, we can’t talk about cancer, and if it’s smaller it can’t be detected only thru mammography). For this, the breast won’t be palpated between two fingers but it must be pressed with your fingertips, performing small circular movements. Start the examination from outside and do not apply excessive pressure on the breast, but either not that soft because in this case you can omit the deep areas of the mammary gland. Make sure you use the same circular movements around the whole breast.
2. Then continue with palpation in the same way but this time between the armpit and breast area to observe any size changes of the glands from the armpits.
3. Look carefully and see if there are changes at the surface, changes of the skin color or blood vessels.
4. Search any breast lesions and ulcers, growths, position changes or shape of the nipple, changes of the breast size or symmetry.
5. See a possible nipple leakage or bleeding. Remember if you had somehow any leakage that colored your clothes or your bra.
6. Get down the arm that you have high and let it hang around your body. Repeat the palpation of the breast in this position.
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That is why the self-examination of the breasts remains the hand method, thru which the woman can detect some alarm signals, in which case she should go to the doctor urgently because and I said before, the disease can be cured if it is diagnosed in an early stage.
When? The self-examination of the breasts must be made once with the advent of the first menstruation of the life of a young woman. The doctors are drawing our attention to: The structure of the mammary gland varies both with age and the menstrual cycle. That is why it is so important that this regularly (monthly) self-examination of the breasts to be made at the fifth day from the menstruation debut, when the volume of the mammary glands is minimal and facilitates the detection of a suspect node.
The self-examination of the breasts involves several simple steps.
1. Sit in front of a mirror with your naked bust. Lift your arm overhead, the opposite arm of the breast that you want to examine. (The main alarm is the presence of a 1 cm nodule in the mammary gland structure. If it is larger the 1 cm, we can’t talk about cancer, and if it’s smaller it can’t be detected only thru mammography). For this, the breast won’t be palpated between two fingers but it must be pressed with your fingertips, performing small circular movements. Start the examination from outside and do not apply excessive pressure on the breast, but either not that soft because in this case you can omit the deep areas of the mammary gland. Make sure you use the same circular movements around the whole breast.
2. Then continue with palpation in the same way but this time between the armpit and breast area to observe any size changes of the glands from the armpits.
3. Look carefully and see if there are changes at the surface, changes of the skin color or blood vessels.
4. Search any breast lesions and ulcers, growths, position changes or shape of the nipple, changes of the breast size or symmetry.
5. See a possible nipple leakage or bleeding. Remember if you had somehow any leakage that colored your clothes or your bra.
6. Get down the arm that you have high and let it hang around your body. Repeat the palpation of the breast in this position.
X Ray Of Breast Cancer
Published on Mar 06 2010, in the categories: Related topics, Useful Info, Ways of detection
The mammography is the best radiological method available at this time with which it can detect the breast cancer early. It is a special type of radiological examination of the breast, carried out using special equipment that can reveal the breast nodules even the ones which are very small to be palpable.
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Breast cancer is one of the most common and dangerous diseases which is affecting the female population of the world. Asymptomatic women over 35 should perform a mammogram once in every two years, annual they should perform a breast ultrasound examination and monthly a self-examination.
For the women which represent a higher risk of developing breast cancer, such as families with breast cancer history, with personal history, fibroids, the mammogram should be performed only with the doctor’s order but it should not replace the regular self-examination or the regular consultation.
The mammogram is a simple procedure. According to specialists, most of the breast nodules are not malignant. Even if the breast cancer is detected, it can be treated. Although mammograms, same like the most medical tests, does not have a 100% accuracy, but still, the regular monitoring with the help of mammography, is the best way to discover breast cancer early, before it will appear the signs or symptoms of cancer. Some studies have shown that mammograms reduce the death rate caused of breast cancer, with more then a third.
Mammography - The procedure: The mammography is an x-ray examination which is using low doses of radiation. The examination must be done preferably during the first half of the menstruation period, and is always bilateral and involves at least two clichés – front and profile – of each breast. Sometimes it requires a third cliché – oblique which is allowing the exploration of the axillary cavities. The radiologist places the patient half stripped in front of the device and before each cliché, he compresses the breast between card port video and a transparent plate.
The mammography requires a previous training only if there exists some leakage trough nipple, situation at which is making a prior opacification of galactofor channels by injecting a contrast product; this procedure is called galactography.
The procedure of processing and developing the film are strictly controlled in order to obtain the best quality image. The mammograms are used to diagnose the changes or the structure abnormalities detected by the self-examination or clinical examination, being used as screening to detect early cancer.
Mammography - Reading the results: Even if we talk about a method what uses X-rays, their quantity is reduced and so the specialists say that the benefits of screening outweigh any kind of risks due to irradiation. Mammography helps to detecting the breast cancer in the first stage of evolution, at the dimensions of 5 mm, while the clinical examination it will detect when the tumor has at least 1 cm in diameter.
In a few cases, the accuracy of the mammogram is lower then usual. For the women with a breast implant, the ability of mammograms to detect abnormalities drops from 92% to 33% because the implant content –liquid or gel– can obstruct the view, as well as the scar tissue that forms around the implant. When the mammogram is false positive it means that the screening shows that there are anomalies but these prove not to be cancer. Most of these false positive results will prove to be negative for cancer. At all ages, 5-10 % of the mammograms are abnormal and they are followed by additional tests – sampling, surgical biopsy or ultrasound.
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Breast cancer is one of the most common and dangerous diseases which is affecting the female population of the world. Asymptomatic women over 35 should perform a mammogram once in every two years, annual they should perform a breast ultrasound examination and monthly a self-examination.
For the women which represent a higher risk of developing breast cancer, such as families with breast cancer history, with personal history, fibroids, the mammogram should be performed only with the doctor’s order but it should not replace the regular self-examination or the regular consultation.
The mammogram is a simple procedure. According to specialists, most of the breast nodules are not malignant. Even if the breast cancer is detected, it can be treated. Although mammograms, same like the most medical tests, does not have a 100% accuracy, but still, the regular monitoring with the help of mammography, is the best way to discover breast cancer early, before it will appear the signs or symptoms of cancer. Some studies have shown that mammograms reduce the death rate caused of breast cancer, with more then a third.
Mammography - The procedure: The mammography is an x-ray examination which is using low doses of radiation. The examination must be done preferably during the first half of the menstruation period, and is always bilateral and involves at least two clichés – front and profile – of each breast. Sometimes it requires a third cliché – oblique which is allowing the exploration of the axillary cavities. The radiologist places the patient half stripped in front of the device and before each cliché, he compresses the breast between card port video and a transparent plate.
The mammography requires a previous training only if there exists some leakage trough nipple, situation at which is making a prior opacification of galactofor channels by injecting a contrast product; this procedure is called galactography.
The procedure of processing and developing the film are strictly controlled in order to obtain the best quality image. The mammograms are used to diagnose the changes or the structure abnormalities detected by the self-examination or clinical examination, being used as screening to detect early cancer.
Mammography - Reading the results: Even if we talk about a method what uses X-rays, their quantity is reduced and so the specialists say that the benefits of screening outweigh any kind of risks due to irradiation. Mammography helps to detecting the breast cancer in the first stage of evolution, at the dimensions of 5 mm, while the clinical examination it will detect when the tumor has at least 1 cm in diameter.
In a few cases, the accuracy of the mammogram is lower then usual. For the women with a breast implant, the ability of mammograms to detect abnormalities drops from 92% to 33% because the implant content –liquid or gel– can obstruct the view, as well as the scar tissue that forms around the implant. When the mammogram is false positive it means that the screening shows that there are anomalies but these prove not to be cancer. Most of these false positive results will prove to be negative for cancer. At all ages, 5-10 % of the mammograms are abnormal and they are followed by additional tests – sampling, surgical biopsy or ultrasound.