CDI Miami | Wednesday August 12, 2020

Breast health- a crucial part of woman’s life

Breast health- a crucial part of woman’s life

 

A scrutiny of your breast is important for your breast health, detecting breast cancer at its initial stage gives you a better chance of survival and treatment. Going for regular diagnostic mammogram and screening tests can help find breast cancer before any occurrence of the symptoms.
 
If you feel any new lump or mass having irregular edges in your breasts, it might be a sign of breast cancer. It’s not definite as sometimes breast cancers can be soft and rounded as well.  Sometimes these lumps are painful and in other cases you might not even feel a pinch of pain. So in order to get sure about it you must consult a healthcare professional who is experienced in diagnosing breast cancer.
 
Caution signs that probably indicate breast cancer
 
Mostly, in advanced countries like US where people go for routine mammogram, breast cancer is detected at an early stage and people get a chance to start its treatment early. However, it’s not always possible to diagnose breast cancer through mammography screening.
 
There are some caution signals every woman should try to understand. The very common symptoms include the change in the look and feel of the nipple or the whole breast. A lump or thickening of breasts, inflammation, redness or darkening of the breasts, alteration in the size and shape of the breasts, feeling of itchiness or rashes on the breast, a sudden start of nipple discharge, pain in the breast that persists for a long time are some of the symptoms and warning signs of the breast cancer.
 
Bringing new hopes to the victims- treatment and survival
 
With the advances in technology, it has now become easy for the doctors to detect and treat the diseases on time which ultimately increases the chances of survival for the patients. Nowadays, there are variety of treatment options available to fight this disease. After going through breast cancer mammogram, it is important to start with the treatment early if in case cancer is diagnosed.
 
The various kinds of treatment depends on the stage of cancer, the doctor may suggest you for surgery that includes mammaplasty in order to reconstruct the breast, tissue expansion, lymph node dissection, mastectomy and lumpectomy. The other medical procedures include teletherapy and radiation therapy that uses x-rays to destroy cancer cells or tumors. Medications such as estrogen modulator, chemotherapy and hormone based therapy are also conducted as a part of the cancer treatment.