10 Things You Didn’t Know About Breast Cancer
October is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness so get your pink on. Learning all you can about fighting this potentially fatal disease goes along ways to help preventing, treating and curing it, and these 10 important facts are essential to know.
Men Suffer from Breast Cancer
We do not often hear about men suffering from breast cancer, but they do. One of the most common forms they tend to suffer from is Gynecomastia, which forms a cancerous growth around the nipple and areola of the breast. Typically, hormone imbalance or genetics is the causing factor, but unfortunately, some medications can cause it too such as ones for treating peptic ulcers, heartburn, heart conditions and mental disorders.
African American Women Experience More Deaths from the Disease
We all know that breast cancer can affect all women of all ages and races throughout life, but many studies have shown that African Women die from the disease more often. However, the reason to why is still unknown. It could be because of diet, lifestyle habits, illness, or simply genetics.
Breast Cancer is the Most Common Cancer in Women
Every 13 minutes women die of breast cancer. This is because breast cancer is the most common disease women suffer from each year. The only way to decrease death of breast cancer each year is by prevention methods, speaking out about it, supporting medical research to help find a cure and encouraging women afraid of screenings to get screening anyways.
Environmental Factors Cause Breast Cancer
The things we use daily within our environment can cause breast cancer. Some of these things are heavy duty cleaning supplies, chemical filled beauty care products, air fresheners, air pollution, pesticides, second hand smoking and even particular wall paints and things you use daily on job sites if you are a construction worker, plumber, auto mechanic or factory worker.
Eating Fish Helps Reduces Risks
If you are trying to reduce your cancers of getting breast cancer eating fish a few times per week can help greatly. In fact, simply getting a daily dose of omega fatty acids reduces your risks by 32%.
Not All Lumps found in Breast are Cancerous
So, you just discovered a lump in your breast. Do not panic. Only 10% of those lumps found are ever cancerous. Simply just call your doctor and get checked out. It is probably nothing to be worked up over.
Early Detection Provides a 95% Survival Rate
As many of you may already know the best way to beat breast cancer is with early detection, but did you know early preventive measures such as getting a breast exam and mammogram could increase your rate of surviving the disease if you do end up having it by 95% to 96%.
Not all Breast Cancers Patients Need Chemo or Surgery
Thankfully, our treatment options when it comes to breast cancer are increasing. Nowadays, some patients do not even need chemo or surgery to treat cancer. There are alternative therapies available so talk to your doctor.
Breastfeeding Prevents Breast Cancer
New medical studies are finding out that moms who breastfeed for long periods are actually providing themselves with natural breast cancer prevention.
