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Breast cancer
* All breast cancers originate in the layer of cells that line the milk ducts.
* Many breast cancers are curable through a variety of treatments
  - estrogen dependent
  - hormone dependent very similar to prostate cancer
  - contain estrogen receptors within their cells
  - depend on the female hormone estrogen to stimulate their growth
* Many breast cancers rely on supplies of the hormone oestrogen to grow
  - the presence of estrogen to continue growing
* Most breast cancer has characteristics.
* Most breast cancer is curable if diagnosed and treated early
  - detected at a late stage
  - found by women themselves while doing breast self-exams
* Most breast cancer occurs in adults
  - women with no family history
  - young adults
  - starts out in the duct of the breast
* Most breast cancers arise from the ducts, or more specifically, the terminal ductal lobular unit
  - begin in the milk ducts
* Most breast cancers depend on estrogen for growth
  - for their growth
  - form in the milk ducts or lobes of the breast
* Most breast cancers have estrogen receptors on the cell surface
  - moderate or poor differentiation
* Most breast cancers occur centrally and laterally in the breasts
  - in the upper outer area of the breast
  - start out in the milk ducts
* Some breast cancer affects men
  - occurs in women
* Some breast cancer spreads to bones
  - livers
* Some breast cancers get their names from the cells of the breast that turned into cancer
  - occur in families and are probably hereditary
* accounts for about one-third of all cancer in American women, and is on the increase
  - one out of every three cancer diagnoses in the United States
  - the greatest number of new cases of cancer in Saskatchewan women
* affecting elderly women major health problem.
* affects a small percentage of men
  - all women differently
  - more than one in eight women
  - persons of any race, age, or religion
  - the lives of families every day
* appear as a lump on the breast, but there are many different types of breast lump.
* appears as a dense area within the mammogram
  - stellate, hard tumor which infiltrates the surrounding breast tissue
  - more likely to occur in women whose diet is high in fat
* appears to be more frequently in women whose diet is very high in fat
  - likely to develop in women whose diet is very high in fat
  - progress differently in women of color than in white women
* are almost always painless
  - more often irregular in shape
* are usually hard on palpation
* arise from cells that line the milk ducts.
* arises from estrogen-responsive breast epithelial cells
  - over many years
* becomes more common with increasing age.
* begins as changes in some of the cells in the breast.
* begins in the breast tissue
  - tissues that make up the breast
* can affect men as well as women.
* can also affect men, but to a lesser degree
  - cause a yellow, bloody, or clear discharge from the nipple
  - have very different growth rates and tendencies to spread
* can also occur in men, although it is rare
  - vary quite dramatically in their growth rate and propensity to spread
* can be a confusing and overwhelming disease
  - tremendous challenge in a woman's life
  - very hard to see on a mammogram
  - become a condition women can live with rather than a life-threatening one
  - develop in one of several different breast areas
  - happen to women with disabilities
  - metastasize via the blood or via the lymphatic system
  - occasionally present as an inflammatory mass
* can occur at any age, but it becomes more common as a woman gets older
  - it is far more common in older women than younger women
  - in any woman at any age but is most common in older women
  - without any warning signs
* can recur any time
  - anytime
* can spread to almost any area of the body
  - bones and cause complications, such as fractures , etc
  - the lymph nodes, lungs, liver, bone and brain
* can strike any woman
  - anyone at anytime
  - take a number of forms
* cancerous tumor that develops in the breast.
* case in point where self-diagnosis produces the optimal outcome
* causes the second highest number of deaths in women, after lung cancer.
* changes a woman's life.
* common disease, affecting one in nine women during their lifetime
  - so it can happen within a family in that way
  - type of cancer among woman
* complex disease.
* condition marked by the growth of abnormal cells in glandular breast tissue.
* continues to afflict women of all ages in frightening numbers.
* continues to be a disease that disproportionately strikes older women
  - significant public health problem
  - the most diagnosed cancer in U.S. and Canadian women
  - impact women and their families at an alarming rate
* cultural disease.
* deadly disease.
* devastating illness striking women often in the prime of life.
* develops in the milk ducts
  - through a series of changes in the cells lining the ducts or the lobules
* disease in which cancer cells are found in breast tissue.
* disease that affects women of all ages
  - can be considered gender-specific
  - knows no ethnic, socioeconomic, age, gender or cultural boundaries
  - where a mutant cell in the breast forms a tumor
  - with a very long memory
* does cause symptoms if it returns
  - respond to treatment
* effects everyone.
* evolves through a series of stages.
* facts Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths in women today.
* family issue.
* feels different than the breast tissue of gynecomastia.
* form of cancer that begins in the breast tissue.
* goes to the bones first, because the mold of breast cancer feeds on calcium.
* grows rather slowly.
* happens only in older women.
* has a high cure rate if detected and treated when the tumor is small
  - survival rate that is increasing
  - few physical signs
  - four stages
  - strong genetic components as well as environmental components
  - the potential to spread to almost any region of the body
* have a decreased ability to undergo cell death
  - the same clinical characteristics in elderly women as in younger women
* increases initiation of angiogenesis without accelerating neovessel growth rate
  - with age
* involves malignant tumors.
* is THE leading type of cancer in women.
* is abnormal cell growth originating in glandular breast tissue
  - that originates in the breast tissue
* is almost equal to myocardial infarction in litigation prevalence
  - totally curable when detected early
* is also a disease replete with mythology
  - an area of intense interest for alternative treatments
  - less common in certain parts of the world, and among certain ethnic groups
  - the leading form of cancer diagnosed in New Hampshire
  - always fatal
  - among the conditions being studied
* is among the most treatable cancers if detected early
  - of solid tumors
  - treated of all cancers
* is an abnormal cell growth originating in glandular tissue
  - growth of cells that lines the ducts and the lobules
  - epidemic and is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women today
  - important health problem in New Zealand
  - increasingly prevalent killer in the United States
  - incredibly common disease, and in fact, is an epidemic
  - indiscriminate killer
  - oestrogen-dependent cancer
  - uncontrolled growth of breast cells
* is another common cancer
  - key indicator of contaminants in the workplace
  - as seen the most common form of cancer among Finnish women
  - associated with high socioeconomic status
  - asymptomatic for years
  - believed to originate in undifferentiated or primitive cells
  - by far the most common type of cancer among women
* is caused by excess estrogen, the female sex hormone
  - several environmental and genetic factors
  - certainly more than one disease
  - classified into several types, listed below
  - common and on the increase
  - confirmed by biopsy
  - considered a woman's disease, but men can also develop breast cancer
  - contagious
  - curable if detected and dealt with early
* is currently the most common cancer in women
  - second leading cause of cancer death in women
  - everywhere
  - far the most frequently diagnosed neoplasm in women
  - fatal if left untreated
  - frequently hormone independent
  - highly curable for women who are diagnosed early
  - hormonally based
  - hormone-dependent
  - influenced by estrogens, and exercise appears to affect levels of sex hormones
  - just one of the many physical effects
  - known to be affected by the hormone
  - less common in younger women, but it is more likely to be aggressive
  - more common among older women
* is more common in middle-aged and older women
  - women, although it can also develop in men
  - than ovarian cancer
* is more prevalent in older age groups
  - women eating high fat, low fibre diets
  - likely to spread to the liver, lungs and bones
* is no longer a death sentence, but a life sentence
  - secret
  - now the leading cause of cancer among Brazilian women
  - often called the disease women fear most
  - on every woman's mind, and all women are at risk
* is on the increase because of environmental pollution
  - rise in California
* is one of the important cancers for which obesity risk factor
  - largest leading killers in women today
* is one of the leading cancer killers of women
  - causes of cancer-related death in women
  - health risks for women
  - killers of women in the United States
  - more curable forms of cancer if it is caught early
* is one of the most common cancers among women in industrialized countries
  - cancers in women
  - forms of cancer in women in the United States
  - malignancies among women
  - malignancies in females
  - dynamic areas of oncologic research
* is one of the most feared and serious diseases that affects women
  - diseases among women
  - poorly understood malignancies
  - terrifying and devastating experiences for a woman
  - treatable and easily controlled types of cancer there is
  - primary causes of premature female mortality in both countries
  - top five causes of death for women
  - which comes immediately to mind
  - present as a spectrum of neoplasms
  - preventable
* is primarily a disease of older women
  - women's disease
  - probably the disease most feared by Canadian women
* is rare in pediatrics and adolescents
  - young women
  - related to calcifications in the breast
* is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death among women
  - as the leading cause of death in women
  - as the most common cause of cancer death in women
  - in cancer-related deaths
  - staged according to size of the tumor, and lymph nodes and other organ involvement
* is still the most common cancer among women, excluding skin cancers
  - type of cancer diagnosed in women living in North America
  - th leading cause of cancer deaths among African American women
  - the biggest killer of women in Australia today
* is the commonest cancer among ethnic minority groups
* is the development of abnormal cells in the breast
  - within the breast tissue
* is the leading cancer among women in Singapore today
  - diagnosed among Pennsylvanian women
* is the leading cancer diagnosed in Pennsylvania women
  - women in America
* is the leading cause of cancer death for African American women
  - death for African-American women
  - deaths among Canadian women
  - deaths among women
  - deaths for women in their forties to midfifties
  - deaths in Illinois women
  - in women, and represents a major health problem
* is the leading cause of death among women in the United States
  - for women in their thirties and forties
  - malignancy in Serbia
* is the most common cancer among African American women
  - women and the second most deadly
  - women, accounting for one in three cancers diagnosed
  - women, affecting one in eight females
  - women, other than skin cancer
* is the most common cancer diagnosed among women in the metro Detroit area
  - in Black American women
  - in women in Canada
  - diagnosis in women
  - for women in British Columbia
  - found in women
* is the most common cancer in African American women
  - Australian women
  - European women
  - Hispanic women
  - women in many developed countries
  - women worldwide
  - women, aside from non-melanoma skin cancers
  - women, aside from skin cancer
  - cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer death, in women
* is the most common cause of cancer among women
  - cancer death in Australian women
  - death from cancer in Australian women
  - death from cancer in women
* is the most common form of cancer among American women
  - cancer among women in the United States
  - cancer and the leading cause of death in American women
  - cancer in woman in the United States
  - cancer in women in Maryland and in the United States
  - cancer in women in industrialized countries
  - cancer on women, so it is worth attention and discussion
  - cancer to strike American women
  - cancer to strike women in Canada
  - malignant tumors affecting women throughout the world
  - malignancy among women in the United States
  - malignant cancer of women in the western world
  - neoplasm in women, with an increase in incidence with age
* is the most common type of cancer among American women
  - cancer in North American women
* is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women
  - among U.S. women
  - in American women today
  - in women in America and worldwide
  - in women next to skin cancer
* is the most commonly occurring cancer among women in Israel
  - female cancer
  - form of cancer in women
  - seen malignancy in women in developed countries
  - frequent cancer striking women worldwide
* is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among Canadian women
  - malignancy in the United States
  - non-skin cancer in American women
  - diagnosed-cancer for North American women
  - occurring cancer in American women
  - reported cancer
  - important differential diagnosis
* is the most prevalent cancer among women
  - significant health and death threat to women
* is the number one cancer in women
  - incidence site in women regardless of race or ethnicity
  - diagnosis for which stem cell transplant is performed today
  - type of cancer diagnosed in intact or un-spayed female cats
  - two cause of cancer related deaths in women
  - predominant type of cancer in women
* is the primary diagnosis, followed by fibrocystic mastopathy, fat necrosis, and cyst
  - second leading cause of cancer deaths in women
  - second leading cancer killer of women
* is the second leading cause of cancer death for all women
  - cancer death in Canada after lung cancer
  - cancer death in women, after lung cancer
  - cancer death in women, exceeded only by lung cancer
  - cancer death in women, exceeding lung cancer
  - cancer death in women, second only to lung cancer
  - cancer deaths among American women
  - cancer deaths among women
  - cancer deaths in American women
  - cancer deaths in women in the United States
  - cancer in women, surpassed only by lung cancer
  - death by cancer among American women
  - death for women in Missouri
* is the second major cause of cancer death among women
* is the second most common cancer among women, second to skin cancer
* is the second most common cause of cancer death in women
  - form of cancer in women, after skin cancers
  - deadly cancer for women
  - second-deadliest cancer in women
* is the second-leading cause of cancer death among women behind lung cancer
* is the third leading cause of death in women
  - most common cancer in the world
  - uncommon in pregnancy but it does occur
  - unique in many ways
  - usually curable if it is found and treated early enough
* is very complicated and affects different people in different ways
  - rare in males
  - uncommon in teenage years
* kills more women in Britain than any other type of cancer.
* kills thousands of women a year
* knows no boundaries of races for attacking women with the disease.
* leading concern of women, and therefore it has a prominent place in our media
  - killer of women in the United States and around the world
* lumps usually aren t painful.
* major cause of morbidity and mortality in elderly women.
* major health concern of women, dogs and cats
  - problem with incidence increasing with age
* malignancy of breast cells that manifests itself in uncontrolled tumor growth.
* malignant form of cancer that develops in breast tissue.
* malignant tumor that develops from breast cells
* malignant tumor that has developed from cells at that site
  - tumour which starts in breast tissue
* metastases masquerading as primary gastric carcinoma.
* occurs among both women and men, but is quite rare among men.
  - all kinds of women
  - both sporadic and inherited forms
  - females in four generations
  - men also, but the number of new cases is small
* occurs in men as well as women, but is much less common
  - women, but is much more common in women
  - one out of every nine women
  - primarily in females but is also common enough in men
* occurs when abnormal cells in the breast tissue grow out of control
  - breast cells become abnormal and divide without control or order
  - cells in the breast become abnormal and grow out of control
  - there change in the way cells grow in the breast
* poses significant risks.
* predates antiperspirants by many centuries.
* problem of pressing national importance.
* ranks second after lung cancer as a cause of cancer deaths among women.
* ranks second among cancer deaths in women, after lung cancer
  - only to lung cancer in terms of cancer deaths among women
* really difficult thing to study.
* remains the leading cause of cancer-related death in women today
  - second leading cause of cancer death for all American women
* results from a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors
  - malignant tumors which invade and destroy normal tissue
* risks in relatives of male breast cancer patients.
* runs in the family of women.
* screening among Cambodian American women lags behind the general U.S. population.
* seems to be associated with a lifetime accumulation of estrogen.
* specific cancer that occurs in one in eight women.
* spreads most often to the bone, liver, lungs or brain.
* starts as a tiny, unusual growth inside the body
  - from the mutation of a single cell in the breast
* strikes both women and men, but mostly women
  - indiscriminately, heedless of race, religion, nationality or social status
* strikes one out of every eight American women
  - or nine women
  - nine American women
  - ten American women
  - regardless of age
  - without regard to age, race or gender
* survival, treatable disease.
* tends to be quite aggressive in younger women
  - strike women earlier than osteoporosis or heart disease
* terrible struggle for women.
* threat to every woman.
* threatens women of every race, every color and every age.
* touches all types of people all over the world each day
  - almost every American family in some way
* touches the lives of both women and men
  - thousands of women and families in the United States each year
* tumor that can have serious consequences.
* type of adenocarcinoma.
* very complex disease caused by changes or mutations in many different genes
  - complicated disease
+ Cancer, Kinds
  * There are many different kinds of cancers. Breast cancer begins in the breast. It can be found in anybody at anytime, even in men. Testicular cancer starts in the testicles, and is most common in young men. Mesothelioma and lung cancer start in the lungs. Mesothelioma is usually caused by exposure to asbestos.