Discovering breast cancer in your early studies is the best way to fight it. Putting stress aside, eating healthy foods, not abusing alcohol and having an annual mammogram is the way to prevent its development
Breast cancer is one of the diseases that most aggressively attack women, although men are not exempt from suffering from it. Although the causes that originate its appearance are not yet known, the best way to combat it is to detect it in its early stages to give it timely and effective treatment.
Over time, cancer cells can invade the surrounding healthy breast tissue and reach the lymph nodes (small organs that remove foreign substances from the body) in the armpits. If cancer cells reach the lymph nodes, they gain access to other parts of the body. Breast cancer studies refer to how far cancer cells have spread beyond the original tumor.
Given the difficulty of doing primary prevention, due to the ignorance of the origin, several risk factors have been established that must be taken into account in order to carry out an early detection.
Paradoxically, the main risk factors are being female and being over 40 years old. However, in Venezuela, they consider that breast cancer is a public health problem. In addition, the incidence in young women has been increasing. "This is why it is recommended to do self-examination from adolescence, at least once a month. Lifestyles such as sedentary lifestyle, obesity or taking hormones for long periods of time have been associated with increased risk.
These are other risk factors: family predisposition to the disease, due to the presence of a gene associated with breast cancer; sexual development before 10 years; menopause after 52 years; women who had no children before the age of 30; overweight, alcohol intake, diets rich in animal fats ... "There are infinitely many, but if a woman is within this high-risk group, it does not mean that she, necessarily, will develop the disease at some point in her life. her.
Specialists indicate that the only way to prevent is to make an early detection, for this they recommend eating a healthy diet, exercising, and not taking hormone replacement therapy. Without medical control, reduce stress and lead a calm pace of life, practice self-examination at home, and most importantly: have an annual mammogram with high-tech equipment after the age of 35 - before if you are in a group of risk and Consult the specialist regularly. The idea is to detect it when it is not palpable, when the injury is millimeter, at that time the healing percentage is 100%.
We must dispel those myths that say Breast cancer does not equal death, medical advances in the field of its treatment are advancing rapidly and with excellent results.
Bumps on the breasts are not related to cancer. Breast implants don't either, they don't even prevent screening, including mammography.
Take good care of yourself, touch yourself, prevention is the key to everything. Do not worry!
