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| Breast Cancer and Safe Screening Awareness Posted: 11 Dec 2009 06:08 AM PST There is a tool available today to help identify the conditions and diseases that could be going on inside you, without symptoms and seemingly harmless. If your a woman that has concerns about breast cancer, this technology is for you. It could quite literally save your breasts, and your life. When the normal function of your body goes dysfunctional, your body will try to heal itself through natural processes. If these processes fail, this is when symptoms develop and at which point most of us realize we need help. Especially when the symptoms affect our lives or even threaten them. The key is to get a heads-up when your body is going through some abnormal changes years before any discernible symptoms develop, thereby avoiding any potential danger. Unfortunately, the conventional medicine community is keeps holding on to old ideas of cancer detection and treatment, not matter the proven ineffectiveness. Breast detection methods used by mainstream medicine include mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, and PET scans. Awareness and education of a better, less risky, more effective options for detecting breast cancer are sorely lacking. Concerning conventional breast cancer screening, it is recommended that all women over 40 get mammogram every one to two years, yet there is no solid evidence that mammorgrams save lives, and the benefits are a bit controversial. In fact, the health hazards of mammography have been well established. The routine practice of taking four films of each breast annually results in approximately 1 rad exposure, and that is about 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray. In case you havn't heard, radiation is not something to play around with. X-rays and other classes of ionizing have been a proven cause of virtually all types of biological mutations, and are an established cause of genomic instability, a characteristic of the most aggressive cancers. Reducing exposure to medical radiation with unnecessary mammograms makes good sense, considering the high percentage of false reads, which unfortunately leads many women to have an unnecessarily mastectomy or harmfully treated with more radiation or chemotherapy. Mammography has its value, but there are other technologies that are proven to be more effective, less expensive, and completely harmless. A win-win situation. What is an option that is safe and can give as much as 10 years warning of something about to develop? It is called thermal imaging, or thermography, which has the ability to detect problems early enough to use preventive choices, versus detecting disease at the stage where treatment is required. Thermography finding are the single most important indicator of high risk for breast cancer. The increased percentage survival rate is astounding when compared with other methods. How does thermography work? It is basically infrared thermal imaging which detects irregular heat patterns which precedes a breast lump. A healthy body is thermally symmetrical, therefore both breasts that are healthy, the blood flow will show nearly identical patterns. Thermography is able to detect if something is awry by different vascular patterns, which can be an indicator of something wrong. The surface temperature of the breast increases as the body tries to feed the cancer tissue. Heat differentiation in the body is an indicator of disease, hence this principle applies most significantly in regard to breast cancer detection. Ladies, thermography is non-invasive, painless, and risk-free. Prevention is the best cure. fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger  |
| The Guidelines For Breast Cancer Treatment Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:42 AM PST Breast cancer treatment is different for every patient afflicted with this deadly disease. There are several stages of Breast cancer which decide the plan of treatment to be followed. Stage 0 This is the initial stage of Breast Cancer, where the disease is limited to the Breast and has not yet spread to the surrounding tissues. Stage I Here the Cancer has spread and to the adjacent tissues and the size of the tumor is also up to 2 cm. But the lymph nodes are not yet involved here. Stage II This stage is further subdivided in to Stage II A and Stage II B. Stage II A Breast Cancer includes different developments like size of the tumor within 2-5 cm, or when the size of the tumor despite being smaller than 2 cm has spread to the axillary lymph nodes or it may include that stage where there is no sign of any cancer cell in the breast but the axillary lymph nodes have been affected. StageII B is where the tumor size is between 2and 5 cm, and has already spilled on to the surrounding tissue. It also includes the tumor sizes above 5cm but has not yet spread to the surrounding tissue. Stage III This stage also has 3 other sub stages A, B, and C. Stage III A This is where there is no sign of any Cancer in the breast, but the disease has already spread in to the neighboring areas. The cancer cells are bundled together and are clutching on to the axillary lymph nodes or the sternum or in some case the size of the tumor is less than 5 cm and has already spread in to the neighboring areas. The cancer cells are bundled together and are clutching on to the axillary lymph nodes or the sternum or the size of the tumor is larger than 5 cm and has spread to the neighboring areas. The cancer cells are bundled together and are clutching on to the axillary lymph nodes or the sternum Stage III B This is where the tumor size is not important because all cancers where the wall of the chest and the skin over the breast has been involved, irrespective of the tumor size is classified under Stage III B. Also there might be lot of inflammatory changes with involvement of the axillary lymph nodes. The lymph nodes are usually adhered together with lot of involvement of the skin over the breast and also the lymph nodes below the breast. Stage III C This stage exclusively deals with invasion by the cancer cells. The size of the tumor is immaterial here, and there may or may not be any signs of cancer in the breast. The most significant feature is the involvement of the lymph nodes and lymphatics above the clavicle or the collar bone. This stage essentially deals with the attack on the lymph nodes of the chest or the axillae or even beyond the collar bone. Stage IV: This stage is the final full blown stage of the deadly disease. Here the cancer cells have crossed over the limiting boundaries and have reached distant far off places. There may not be any sign of disease in the breast itself, but the Kidneys, Liver or the bones may be affected. Based on these major guidelines, the breast cancer is usually further classified into many different descriptions like an early stage, denoting the Stage I, Stage II and early Stage III, whereas the late stages, may signify a late Stage III and Stage IV. TREATMENT: The various options for breast cancer treatment are as listed out here: • Chemotherapy • Hormonal therapy • Breast Surgery-Lumpectomy / Mastectomy. • Radiotherapy • Targeted therapies • Alternative and Holistic treatments • Clinical trials- involving trial on patients using a new therapy Whatever may be the treatment, it is finally dependent on the stage and progress of the disease. There is very little chance offered for patients to actually select their mode of breast cancer treatment, for the simple reason that all the treatments are basically determined by the progress of the disease, and secondly due to the fact that all the modes have their own share of side effects and untoward effects. Only the intensity varies. fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger  |
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