Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women, accounting for about 270,000 cases a year. The average woman has about a 12% chance of developing breast cancer.
The vast majority of patients with advanced breast cancer present skeletal complications that severely compromise their quality of life. Breast cancer cells are characterized by a strong tropism to the bone niche. After engraftment and colonization of bone, breast cancer cells interact with native bone...
Breast cancer is rare in men but makes up about 1% of all breast cancers. It typically has a significantly worse outcome. This is partially related to the often late diagnosis of male breast cancer, when the cancer has already spread. Symptoms are similar to the symptoms in women, with the...
On Friday morning after I sent our three children off to school I traveled to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) to have a port implanted. My first appointment of the day was at 10:15 to have an electrocardiogram (EKG/ECG). MSK requires an EKG on one of their machines within...
N - spread to nearby lymph nodes.On a scale of 0 to 3, this tells you if or how many lymph nodes near the breast the cancer has spread to. M - spread to distant organs.Either a 0 or 1, this value says whether the cancer has reached organs farther away, like your bones, liver,...
Invasive breast cancers are staged I through IV, with stage I being the earliest stage and easiest to treat, while stages II and III represent advancing cancer, with stage IV representing breast cancer cells that have spread (metastasized) to distant organs like the bones, lungs, or brain. Wh...
[41]. Invasive breast cancer that extends to different organs of the body is also recognized as metastatic breast cancer [42]. Most common organ to which these cells spread are brain, bones, lungs and liver. These cells once more segregate and expand irregularly and produce new cancers. The...
to go back to work so I was alone. By then, I could stand long enough to make soup and mostly, I didn't think I would die right then so it was okay for him to be gone all day. But, it was lonely and I thought this bed to couch existence would be my life until cancer got...
By definition, metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is not curable. If you have stage 4 breast cancer it means that it's spread far beyond the breast and nearby tissue; it's likely infiltrated the brain, bones, liver, or lungs. "There's a misconception that breast cancer always gets cured,...
Citation:Gomathi N, Sandhya P. Prognosis and Diagnosis of BreastCancerUsing Interactive Dashboard Through Big Data Analytics. Biotechnol Ind J. 2017;13(1):128. Abstract Background:Canceris a life threatening disease of present scenario among which breastcanceris the second h...