When many women are diagnosed with breast cancer they devote so much time and energy, after the initial shock, on the treatments offered and just getting through them to survive. It is always a sort of anti-climatic shock when the treatments are over; they have been successful in eradicating, even if only temporarily the [...]

Many people with other kinds of cancers may feel like they aren’t represented the way breast cancer awareness is represented. Some men feel that women have an unfair attention to breast cancer awareness, when they don’t feel represented for prostate cancer awareness. Cancer is a horrible, insidious disease, and all forms of cancer [...]

DCIS or Ductal Carcinoma In Situ is diagnosed in over 60,000 women in the United States alone annually. DCIS is defined as a growth of malignant cells located inside the milk ducts of a woman’s breasts. It is uncertain or at least there is a degree of controversy whether DCIS is a type [...]

Inflammatory breast cancer is an inflammation of the breast tissue and it is caused when the lymph vessels under the skin get clogged. There is no known reason to explain why it happens. This remains a mystery that has yet to be solved. Of the various types of breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer accounts for [...]

There is no difference between the terms “breast cancer” and “breast tissue cancer.” There are different types of cancers within the breast, such as In situ and invasive cancer. The entire breast, nipple, and internal structures of the breast are all part of the breast tissue. Breast tissue, in its strictest sense, [...]

There are different structures in your breast, and cancer could be in any of them. For instance, you have lymph nodes, you have milk ducts, and you have 15 lobes in each breast that contains gland cells that produce milk. There are lymph channels within the breast that drain into the blood stream. [...]

There are a number of breast cancers that could create thickening of the skin. One is lymphatic cancer of the breast, in which cancer cells enter the lymph vessels. Lymphedema can be caused by a cancerous or benign tumor pressing on the lymph vessels, which can cause thickening of the skin. The [...]

President Obama announced that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and there are many ideas for which you can promote breast cancer awareness, not just in October, but all the year round. If you work in the health care field, you might want to remind your doctors to suggest to their female patients to [...]

There is no one breast cancer awareness walk; there are several that are equally devoted to the breast cancer awareness cause. Because of causes like these breast cancer walks, millions of dollars are raised to strengthen the awareness of breast cancer. The money raised helps to bring about research to make improvements in [...]

The Symptoms of breast cancer vary from woman to woman, and the symptoms some types of breast cancer may change as it progresses from one stage to another. Before we get into the symptoms of breast cancer, let’s cover what breast cancer is. Breast cancer is breast tissue cells that have grown out [...]