Breast Cancer Is Most Aggressive in African American Women Breast cancer is the second leading cause of deaths in American women‚ with lung cancer being the first. It is the most common cancer in women not including non-melanoma skin cancers. Breast cancer is a group of related diseases in which cells in the breast‚ most commonly in the lining of the milk ducts or milk producing glands become abnormal and divide without control or order as a normal cell would. When cancer cells break away from the
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Where Cancer comes from Cancer of the lung‚ like all cancers‚ results from an abnormality in the body ’s basic unit of life‚ the cell. Tumors can also cause cancer. Tumors usually can be removed and do not spread to other parts of the body. Malignant tumors‚ on the other hand‚ grow aggressively and invade other tissues of the body‚ allowing entry of tumor cells into the bloodstream or lymphatic system and then to other sites in the body. This process of spread is termed metastasis; the areas of
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What is the importance of Breast cancer awareness? Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Cancer often creates fear which comes out of ignorance and misconception. More than 30% of cancer cases could be prevented by modifying lifestyle or avoiding key risk factors. About 1/3rd of cancer cases could be reduced if cases are treated and detected at an early stage. Breast cancer awareness is an effort to raise awareness and reduce the stigma of breast cancer through education on symptoms and
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MADD Would you as a mother‚ or father want to get a shocking call about your son/daughter dead or in the hospital from having a car accident for being drunk while driving? Or because somebody was drunk while driving and they crashed into your son/or daughter and now shes in the hospital paralyzed? Well this is why MADD was incorporated on September 5‚ 1980 to help prevent drunk driving‚ and help stop underage drunk drivers or under aged drugged drivers‚ also to help and make families safer .MADD
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things in our life to prepare us for the future ahead.” I never apprehend what she meant by the concept of “things” until 2012‚ when she told me she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. When I found out my grandmother had Breast Cancer I was filled with solicitude and anxiety. My grandmother became despondent and ashamed of her cancer‚ and as her hair started to fall out‚ I noticed the nervousness in her eyes which caused me to be more concerned. A week later she had to go into surgery. Knowing my grandmother
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died of breast cancer. It is said that Komen asked one thing of Brinker while laying on her deathbed‚ to “do something so other women would not suffer her fate”. Two years later Susan G Komen became a foundation for breast cancer. As all foundations are funded through money‚ Brinker had to raise public awareness and get contributions for the cause. The first event was a polo tournament that did not have a big outcome but the following year Betty Ford‚ former first lady and breast cancer survivor
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Breast Cancer Support Groups Content by Tony Johnson of Artisan Farm. You’re driving along a lonely stretch of highway. You haven’t seen another motorist in hours‚ or so it seems. You’ve been driving all day‚ and the sun is setting. A tear flows. Nobody understands you. Nobody seems to care. Nobody can relate to what you’re going through. Having breast cancer can be a lonely off-the-beaten-path stretch of road. Life can be so hard‚ and that is before you got breast cancer. But now‚ it seems impossible
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shown that the number of cases of breast cancer amongst women has slightly decreased. However there are many women that are unaware on how they can protect themselves. It is for this reason I have decided to create this dramatic piece to show some of the causes and preventions of breast cancer can be controlled by the woman herself. This piece describes an evening at home‚ where a younger sibling educating the elder about her habits which can her to develop breast cancer‚ and that she can try to rectify
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Known for centuries as the "dread disease"‚ Breast Cancer‚ a formidable opponent of any woman alive today‚ was even more so in the nineteenth century. Women who were diagnose with the disease had very little chance of survival and were all too often subjected to excruciating and brutal breast augmentation surgeries‚ even when much of the time they were already terminal and the surgery made no difference at all. Robert Shadle and James S. Olson’s story about our ill fated heroin Nabby Smith recants
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will develop cancer in their lifetimes? This seems like a lot‚ but most cases will occur in people 65 or older. Countless celebrities such as David Bowie‚ Ben Stiller‚ Hugh Jackman‚ Sharon Osbourne‚ and Olivia Newton-John have all fought cancer. And there’s a good chance that we all know someone who has cancer right now. There are over 200 types of cancer that can occur in humans‚ the most common places that cancer can occur include the breast‚ skin‚ lung‚ and colon. The disease cancer got its name
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