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Hey, doesn't she look great even after 40?.... every women
like to hear this appreciation.But many of them fail to fight
the effects of aging due to their life style, tension related
to their home and office, several diseases etc.
Cervical cancer or cancer of the cervix is an abnormal growth
of malignant (cancer) cells in the cervix.
Breast Cancer
Sometimes abnormal cells develop in the breast tissue, forming
a lump or tumor. This is the most common type of cancer in
women.
The breast has several lobes, which are divided into lobules
and end in the milk glands. Tiny ducts run from the many tiny
glands, connect together, and end in the nipple. Any tissue
in the breast can be affected and it will destroy the nearby
tissues also. Usually the cancer arises from tissue that forms
milk ducts. There are at least 15 different kinds, depending
on the site of development . Both women and men can develop
breast cancer, but it is very rare in men.
Breast cancer occurs more commonly in the left breast than
the right and more commonly in the outer upper quadrant. The
tumor may distort the shape of the breast or the texture of
the skin as it becomes larger. It can be detected when it
grow large enough to either be felt or seen on a mammogram.
The cancer cells spread through the specialised channels
in the breast called lymphatics to the lymph nodes to form
tumors. It also spread or metasize to the other parts of the
body through the blood stream. It spreads through the right
side of the heart to the lungs, and eventually to the other
breasts, the chest wall, liver, bone and brain. Spreading
of the tumor to other parts of the body can cause death.
Breast cancer can be classified by histologic appearance
and location of the lesion.
Adenocarcinoma - arising from the epithelium.
Intraductal - developing within the ducts
Infiltrating - Occurring in parenchyma of the breast.
Inflammatory - reflecting rapid tumor growth, in which the
overlying skin become edematous, inflamed and in-durated.
Lobular carcinoma in situ - reflecting tumor growth involving
lobes of glandular tissue.
Medullary or circumscribed - large tumor with rapid growth
rate.
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