Important Breast Cancer Prevention Tips

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oi-Anwesha Barari

By Anwesha Barari

Friday, August 26, 2011, 13:47

Breast cancer prevention is actually quite simple and effective. And yet breast cancer facts every year claim that it is the number one killer disease among women. Why is it that women take their health problems so lightly. Is it ignorance, fear, inability to accept reality or just plain indifference. Are our own lives so cheap to ourselves? It shouldn't be. All you have to do is simple round of breast self examination regularly to make breast cancer prevention possible. But we are too lazy to do even that. It is time to shake off the lethargy and take some positive action.

Here are some basic but important health care tips to make breast can prevention effective.

How To Do Practice Breast Cancer Prevention?

1. Know your own Heredity: It has been proven by scientific research that breast cancer has a very distinct element of heredity in it. The gene causing 'breast cancer' is transferred from mother to daughter and grandmother to granddaughter. Breast cancer facts say that it is more prominent in the female blood line, meaning, from your mothers side of the family. This gene might lie dormant in some women or may be lie dormant for generations; we can never be sure. But is your mother has breast cancer or somebody in her family does then you need to be on 'red alert' because your chances increase substantially.

2. Don't Trigger the Cancer Gene: If you have a family history of breast cancer then you absolutely must not do anything to trigger the recessive gene. Smoking in your case will be suicide. You have to avoid all carcinogens be it food, plastic bottles or metal dust.

3. Early Detection: There are three stages of breast cancer; Tumor, Nodal and Metastasis. If you can detect breast cancer in the tumor stage, when it is only a lump then the chances of survival are 90%. At the Nodal stage it is already forming lymph nodes and metastasis is when it spreads. The trouble with breast cancer is that the external symptoms don't show until the Nodal stage where chances of survival comes down to 50% and after it spreads chances are very bleak.

4. Breast self examination: This is the only full proof way to survive breast cancer by detecting it in the first stage. Nobody knows your body better than you. You have for lumps once every week while you bathe or change clothes. Move your hands in a circular motion over your bust and try feel or small balls that move when you press them. During and a little before your periods yours breasts are lumpy due to formation of natural cysts but otherwise it should be homogenous. If you feel any abnormality during breast self examination rush to a gynecologist without delay. It may be a benign lump or malignant one but it has to be operated immediately.

Breast cancer prevention should be our goal not just for ourselves but also our families.

Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is for general informational and educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or a qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.