Breast cancer affects more than 200,000 women every year in United States alone. Taking away someone’s mom, sister, neighbor, teacher, good friend, or wife everyday. Like AIDS, the strongest weapons anyone can have to fight this illness are correct information and awareness.Cancer bracelets caught the eye of the public when a famous cancer survivor wore […]

A commonly used treatment for breast cancer is chemotherapy. A patient who undergoes surgery does not guarantee that it will not happen in the future. This is because cancer cells are quite small and there is a strong possibility that it could have spread to other parts of the body which could recur again.To reduce […]

The first reaction for most women who just find out of being diagnosed with breast cancer is shock. Some of these individuals are very healthy which makes it very hard to believe. To be sure, most patients get a second opinion which just confirms the former diagnosis.Being diagnosed with breast cancer does mean the end […]

There are different types of breast cancer: ductal carcinoma in-situ (most common type of breast cancer), infiltrating ductal, medullary carcinoma, infiltrating lobular, tubular carcinoma, mucinous carcinoma and inflammatory breast cancer which is characterized by drastic breast skin changes (redness, thickening and dominance of the hair follicles).Like any other cancer, the breast cancer undergoes changes. Stage […]

First things first. Let’s eradicate all the myths that surround breast cancer. To be thoroughly informed, we must know what are the correct facts, what are the wrong ones.
One common myth is a lump in the breast automatically means it’s cancer. This is not true. It is reported that eight out of ten lumps are […]