Breast cancer Overview
Although breast cancer seen mainly in females, but also it affect males , and when it develop in male breast , it become more dangerous and severe than affecting females !
Breast for females considered to be very vital organ in her body , and it account very important physical , psychological and also sign of beauty for any female young or even old.
Giving short note about the normal anatomy and physiology of that vital organ , we can say that , Breast is not an organ , it is modified sweat gland , which called “Mammary gland” , and it is lie in the chest wall , extend from the 2nd rib of chest down wards to the 6th rib and also extend from the sternum to the axillary line , the breast have a tail which consider prolongation of the breast itself and it extend to the axillary fat .
Second the main function of the female breast is formation and ejection of milk , that job done by special epithial tissue and ducts of the breast and it controlled by higher centers in the brain.
Breast cancer when arise it affect one of two parts of the breast , that is epithial tissue or the duct system , also it can be local , that mean only arise in breast tissue and that stage consider an early stage , or it may be metastatic to various organ , and in that stage it consider to some extent hopeless and only palliative treatment is the only choice.
Early screening and diagnosis of breast cancer , differ dramatically in breast cancer prognosis and also in ways of treatment .
So for any female , she should screen regularly for breast cancer .
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