Question by mickey: What does it mean when you have breast cancer in 3 distinct locations?
My friend just found out that she has breast cancer in her right breast but three different lump sorts of cancer in 1 breast, and it has effected her lymph nodes at least two of them. What are her chances and what stage cancer would that be? She is going to be getting a mascetomy and chemo.

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Answer by sunflare63
Tell your buddy to get a second opinion just before carrying out something,
For sore breasts, put castor oil on them.
Alot of breast cancer test are a money racket.

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Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams – Covered by The Floats at the Hopewell BBQ for Breast Cancer
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Breast cancer is a dangerous disease. It is perfectly natural for any woman to be afraid. However, this does not mean that the problem should not be discussed. Quite the opposite, being better informed about the risk factors can help you prevent the problem or get more adequate and timely treatment.

The truth is that no woman is perfectly safe from breast cancer. Researchers have not figured out what triggers the condition exactly. What we know so far is that there are certain risk factors that increase your chance of suffering from the disease. Still, it should be pointed out that the presence of these factors does not mean that you will definitely get this disease.

Having a close relative with the condition increases your risk of getting it approximately two times. This means that if you have a mother, sister or daughter who has or has had breast cancer, you are two times more likely to develop the disease. If you have two first degree relatives with the condition, your risk increases five times.

There are genetic factors that can also increase your chances of getting the condition. Women with alternations in either of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are up to 80 per cent more likely to suffer from this disease.

Aging has long been associated with the development of different types of cancer. Statistics reveal that this is one of the factors that increase the risk of breast cancer as well. Researchers have found that the chance of suffering from this condition in your 40′s is 1 in 68, while getting it in your 50′s is 1 in 37.

If you have had an abnormal breast biopsy in the past, your chance of developing the condition becomes higher. This is particularly applicable to women who have been diagnosed with atypical hyperplasia.

These are the main factors that put you at higher risk. There are additional ones that can also boost your chances of getting the condition to a certain extent. Still, according to physicians these increase the risk minimally.

Some of the additional factors that increase the risk include distant family history of the condition, first childbirth after the age of 35, menstruation before the age of 12 and menopause after the age of 55. It has been suggested that being overweight and consuming excessive amounts of alcohol also increases your risk of getting the condition.

Consider all these risk factors and take the necessary measures to prevent breast cancer.

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Green tea is attributed a variety of health benefits. There is a common notion that the consumption of this beverage can reduce the risk of breast cancer in women. It is worth exploring the evidence that supports this claim and the findings that refute it.

Various animal studies, with most being on mice, suggest that the powerful antioxidant, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), can slow the development of breast tumour. One study on groups of mice with injected breast tumor cells has shown that in those treated with EGCG the tumour shrunk by up to 66%.

There have been many clinical studies on human patients as well. In a study of 427 women with different stages of breast cancer, researchers discovered that those who consumed the highest amounts of green tea had the smallest spread of the tumour. Another study in Japan included women who had been treated for this type of cancer. The ones who consumed high amounts of green tea per day were up to 50% less likely to develop breast cancer again.

However, some of the latest studies show no direct relationship between the consumption of green tea and the reduction of the risk of breast cancer. The study carried out in Japan is one of the largest ever made. It involved 54,000 women with different levels of consumption of green tea, ranging from less than 1 cup a day to over 10 cups a day. During the time of the study 581 women were diagnosed with the condition.

The researchers found that the risk of breast cancer development in women drinking little tea and those drinking a lot of tea did not differ. They concluded that the consumption of green tea does not reduce the risk of the condition, irrespective of the number of cups of the drink consumed per day.

There are other studies that support these findings. Another study that led to the same conclusion, however, showed surprising results. It turned out that even though the consumption of the drink did not reduce the risk in general, the women under the age of 50 who drank three or more cups per day were 37% less likely to develop the condition.

Overall, it is not known whether and how much green tea can reduce your risk of breast cancer. One thing is certain though, its consumption will not do you harm, but will bring you a lot of other health benefits.

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If people in your family, your mother, your grandmother, an aunt were breast cancer or ovarian cancer survivors, you always knew that you ran the risk. You’ve always wished for a simple insurance policy against this – a simple vaccine or pill you could take, that could assure you that your risk of cancer was no longer what it used to be. Actually, there is such a thing; and it is called Tamoxifen. Women, if they have a family history, and if take a genetic test that turns out positive for the cancer gene, are often recommended Tamoxifen by their doctors. This drug is properly proven to be great at cancer prevention for women who are at high risk; other drugs like raloxifene and a class of drugs known as aromatase inhibitors too, all act as powerful cancer retardants. But when women are terrified enough of the possibility of cancer, sometimes, merely halving their risk isn’t enough to help with their fears. They feel that nothing but a complete mastectomy, and ovary removal will do for them.

So now that doctors have a great set of cancer prevention drugs, they have a new task before them: finding out how you get people to take them. The short answer is, that these cancer prevention drugs are not without their side effects. And women in general are terrified of certain kinds of side effects. Drugs like Tamoxifen promise all kinds of problems, a higher risk of a treatable kind of uterine cancer, cataracts, sexual problems, and hot flashes. In study after study, doctors keep finding that more than 80% of their patients refuse to take cancer prevention drugs, for fear of such side effects. It can’t really be clearly put down to the side effects either. The other drug Raloxifene does the same cancer prevention work, with fewer side effects, and women still won’t take it. Actually, women are not always afraid of side effects. They do take birth control or aspirin. This probably goes to a fallacy, that when we do something deliberately, that brings us a risk of harm, however small that might be, our minds can blow them up. And when we consider not doing anything about an existing risk, our minds and gloss over it.

Lots of parents oppose vaccines for the risk of autism that the  prevailing superstition suggests is possible. Their minds however do not take seriously the real risk of measles or whooping cough that might blow up out of their actions. People just don’t see the risk of coming to harm in the future; they just don’t want to risk anything that they have already. There are promising new developments though; new drugs based on the aromatase inhibitors, promise to have fewer side effects. But this will always be a problem in medicine. If women choose to mutilate their bodies over taking a few medicines, there really is nothing that new developments can do for them.

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