Prevention Of Breast Cancer
Breast cancer ranks at the top of a blacklist of cancer diseases. In the U.S., one in 8 women is diagnosed with this unforgiving disease. There is no wonder, then, the disease is considered a social phenomenon, which mobilizes staff and huge research funds worldwide.



Although it is known that prevention of breast cancer is much easier than treating a cancerous disease, and despite the alarming statistics related to the explosion of oncological diseases, public health agencies, as well as foundations or nonprofit organizations that advocate against breast cancer, or which fight for the early detection and prevention of breast cancer through self-examination, mammography and regular clinical checks, this is still too little to reduce the number of illnesses.


The cruel truth is that too few women (1 in 50) are aware of the risk factors that threaten them. However, medical statistics recognize that 1 / 3 of patients under treatment in hospitals are dying from the disease, despite improvement in diagnostic methods. However, relapse prevention, so-called secondary prevention, is based only on tamoxifen administration, one of the most popular medicines, which is used to reduce estrogen activity in the tissues, considering that it diminishes the risk of relapse by 40%.

However, patients not know almost anything about food factors that could lead to cancer and, despite the removal of the breast, the cancer may act as undisturbed on the other breast, for example. And it would be very easy for information campaigns and educational reports to educate more and more women in the sense of a healthy diet to prevent and avoid this awful disease.

After a sunny summer like the one this year, many women are going to see a pain or suspected breast discomfort, which should not be overlooked. Most commonly, such troubles occur in people who have been exposed to excessive scorching sun to get tanned, but events also occur in people who, although they not "seen the sea" this year, were indirectly exposed to the rays of the sun that is too strong, because of the clothing items with generous cleavage or made of very thin and see-through material.

There are signs that should be considered worrisome, especially if the pain radiates to the armpit and up the arm to the elbow, if breast "throb" or if you feel a bump or a node, or a harder area. The drama is even greater when the person is younger. Some women are very frightened and desperate, and they run from one doctor to another, hoping for a softer diagnosis, while others, on the contrary, terrorized by fear, do not tell anyone what had happened and therefore may face a worsening problem, which they keep hidden under the bra.


Sure that the appearance of breast pain does not automatically mean cancer, and scorching sun is not the only one responsible for the formation of breast changes. However, even if not all oncologists agree, through the thinning ozone layer, UV radiation between 180 and 320 mm, very intense in the summer, between 12-15 p.m., are responsible not just for the multiplication of skin cancers, but also for the onset of breast cancer.

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