Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women, accounting for 18.8% of all malignant tumors in women. The likelihood of developing cancer increases in direct proportion to age; women under 30 make up about 4% of patients. In men, breast cancer is very rare.
If you ask patients who have been diagnosed with cancer about the history of their illness, most of them will say that before the tumor was found they suffered from one chronic disease or another. Thus, patients with stomach cancer mention chronic anacidic gastritis; with lung cancer, chronic bronchitis; with cervical cancer, long-standing erosions; with skin cancer, a wart or pimple that they repeatedly picked off. Only a small number of patients cannot name a disease that preceded the tumor, because malignant growth only rarely arises in healthy tissue. Tumor growth almost always begins in tissue altered by a previous pathological process or by long-term injury. Cancer researchers have found that some pathological processes precede the appearance of a tumor more often than others. That is why these chronic processes are called pretumor or precancerous diseases. But a person with these diseases will not necessarily develop a malignant tumor. Most precancerous diseases merely create a favorable environment for a malignant tumor to develop.
Factors that increase the risk of breast cancer include:
age (over 40)
hereditary and family predisposition (women whose mothers or sisters had breast cancer are much more likely to develop the disease)
late menopause
early onset of menstruation (before age 12)
giving birth to a first child after age 30
termination of pregnancy
never having given birth
fibrocystic mastopathy
obesity (more than 40% above normal weight)
diabetes mellitus, hypertension
regular smoking and alcohol consumption
There are quite a few precancerous diseases of the breast. The most common of them is fibrocystic mastopathy, which shows up as lumps of various sizes in the breasts, periodic pain before menstruation, and nipple discharge.
Early detection is the best protection against breast cancer. The earlier the disease is diagnosed, the higher the chances of full recovery. Suffice it to say that treatment of stage 1 cancer allows 95% of women to recover. But as the tumor grows, the recovery rate drops dramatically – to no more than 50%.
To examine the breasts and detect even small tumors, no highly sophisticated equipment is needed. It is known that nine out of ten breast changes are found by women themselves! Breast self-examination should start at age 20 and be done every month, preferably in the first week after your period. Women in menopause should choose one day of the month, for example, the first day of each month. Pay attention to any changes in your breasts. If you find any lumps, growths, suspicious areas, pain or nipple discharge, the strong recommendation is to see an oncologist. Remember: tumors and even breast cancer can be fully cured, especially if you see a specialist at an early stage! Statistics prove it: 95% of women whose disease is detected at stage 1 and 80% of women whose disease is detected at stage 2 are cured of breast cancer.
And finally. As the experience of world medicine shows, no country in the world has yet documented a single case of a malignant tumor being cured with alternative medicine. Alternative treatment only wastes time, prevents the use of effective “conventional” medicine, and lets early-stage cancer progress to late, incurable stages.