How do women not have breast cancer anymore?
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at
2:45 am
La La La, Elmo’s World Keheh asked:
I thought if you have cancer, it stays there.. I want to know how they got rid of it, I also want to help do something about it too, like in walks and such or buy their stuff, but Idk how to do a physical action or know where we can go and do a run-a-thon for it, Thanks!
I thought if you have cancer, it stays there.. I want to know how they got rid of it, I also want to help do something about it too, like in walks and such or buy their stuff, but Idk how to do a physical action or know where we can go and do a run-a-thon for it, Thanks!
I live in minnesota btw if that could help you guys out.
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Breast cancer is treated with medications or chemotherapy or in some very bad cases the breast tissues is removed completely (mastecthotomy) and then the breast can be replaced with an implant. Women die when it is untreated for too long and spreads or does not respond to treatment.
How about the Avon Walk for Breast cancer? try this.. walk.avonfoundation.org
or this..
Chemotherapy can shrink cancerous tumors. Surgery, either by lumpectomy, partial mastectomy or full mastectomy can remove all or most of the cancer.
The cancer does not have to be in a late stage(or ‘very bad’) for removal of the breast. It is very common for stage 0 cancer to be treated with mastectomy. All it takes is for the microscopic cancer cells to be sprinkled in several places throughout the breast.
For me, a breast cancer survivor, who hopefully has no more cancer cells(!), I think the best way you can help is by taking good care of your body, doing self exams and encouraging every woman you know to go for mammos and doing their own self exams
Following breast surgery and treatments it is possible for all cancerous cells to have been removed and thus the patient to be cured.
The problem is, there is no way of knowing if this is the case; breast cancer can recur at any time, even years later.
So people like me who are fit and well some years after breast cancer treatment are regarded as being in remission rather than cured. At check-ups the term doctors usually use when they find no sign of cancer is NED, No Evidence of Disease (NED is my favourite word!).
However, many women have lived the rest of their lives after treatment without any recurrence of breast cancer, so clearly they were cured. It’s just that nobody could promise them that would be the case.