Breast cancer is curable when diagnosed and treated early. Learn and study are the two magic words that can save your life. Breast cancer is one of the great socio-medical problems of today, their high frequency and progressive increase in the number of women who suffer.
Its incidence, which generally in developed countries ranges from 20 to 80 per 100,000 women with an average increase of 2% per year.
The data obtained from reality should not fear to motivate people but simply knowledge of some data, to enable optimal diagnosis, as a result achieve cure (breast cancer is curable when it is diagnosed in its early stages)
Who are most at risk?
• Woman over 50
• Woman who have not become pregnant.
• Woman who became pregnant for the first time after 30 years.
• Woman with a close relative (mother or sisters) who have had breast cancer.
However, in most women with breast cancer causes are not fully identified.
How to prevent breast cancer?
At present there is no method of prevention but early diagnosis, allowing in whom cure is developed.
How to make an early diagnosis?
The American Cancer Society recommends: Up to age 40 women should be examined by a doctor every 3 years and then once a year.
Women should do:
- A mammogram between 35 and 40 years
- A mammogram every 2 years between 40 and 49.
- Yearly screening mammograms beginning at age 50
Of course these are general guidelines that are plausible for amendment if the doctor for any other factor it deems advisable.
It must be remembered that mammography is the most suitable method for diagnosing a subclinical tumor is, when does not have any symptoms or they may show signología.
Thanks to technological advancement, high-resolution mammography, now available can detect a tumor from 6 to 8 years before its clinical appearance, can be treated with surgery very small, keeping the breast, her femininity, her motherhood, her health and life. Every scientific revolution changes the historical perspectives of the community that experiences it.
Today women must learn to care.