To encourage prevention and early detection, pancreatic cancer awareness month was enacted. Other cancers are more prevalent. Nevertheless, once diagnosed, pancreatic cancer is generally fatal. Scientists used to assume that the cancer that killed Patrick Swayze last year did its damage rapidly, however new findings show that pancreatic cancer takes numerous years to reach its deadly phase, which increases the promise of early detection.
Numbers in Cancer of the breast Consciousness Month
According to American Cancer Society estimates, in 2009 there were 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 62,280 early-stage breast cancer diagnosed in women. In those cases, numerous were said to end in death. 40,000 of them were given this verdict. 2,000 men were diagnosed with cancer of the breast this past year too. Of those, about 440 were predicted to die.
Breast cancer false statements
- Breast cancer will happen with underwire bras
It isn’t true that underwire bras constrict breast tissue causing toxins to be released. Numerous believe cancer comes from these toxins. The truth, Dr. Deborah Axelrod tells Columbia Broadcasting System, is that no such link exists.
- Deodorant causes breast cancer
This is not true. Dr. Schnabel explains this. Studies do not have anything in them about cancer of the breast being linked to deodorant. It hasn't been proven.
- Don't drink from plastic water bottles. They trigger cancer
Many say there isn't any kind of link between plastic bottles and cancer-causing dioxin while others believe that there is a link. The connection to cancer with BPA (bisphenol) is one more major concern. There is not any proved links though.
- Avoid mammograms. They trigger breast cancer
Dr. Schnabel tells Columbia Broadcasting System News the amount of radiation (.1 to .2 rads per picture) released in a mammogram is equal to or less than what a woman’s breasts are exposed to naturally over a three-month period.
- More of a risk with lumpy breasts
While lumpy breasts can make breast cancer detection somewhat more difficult, having lumpy breasts does not resign a woman to breast cancer. Dr. Axelrod does explain that a women should investigate all treat newly discovered breast lumps and be cautious.
- Family history doesn't have cancer of the breast. I'm home free
While breast cancer can run within the family, studies indicate that 80 percent are sporadic cases.
Citations
Cancer.org
cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/BreastCancerFactsFigures/index
CBS News
cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20018296-10391704.html
Susan G. Komen ‘Survivor of the Year’ on ‘The Early Show’
youtube.com/watch?v=dqiDrDzzEk8
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