There are breast cancer symptoms that are not located in the breast. When there are symptoms in other parts of the body, it is due to metastasis, or otherwise known as secondary breast cancer. Many of the symptoms of secondary breast cancer can feel like flu symptoms. Most of the time feeling [...]

If you think you might have breast cancer, you should see a doctor immediately. Some of the symptoms of breast cancer that may manifest are a lump in the breast, redness and swelling of the breast, lump or swelling in the arm pit, inverted nipple, clear or bloody discharge from the breast, pain in [...]

Whether or not breast cancer puts you at risk for breast cancer depends on your age. A woman who is premenopausal and overweight is less likely to develop breast cancer than someone who is menopausal or postmenopausal. If you are an obese woman over 50 years of age, and you get breast cancer, [...]

The cost of breast cancer treatment will vary by the stage of the breast cancer, and what type of treatment you have. You could have a combination of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. The cost would also depend on if you have insurance, and what kind of insurance that you have. You could [...]

Unfortunately, if you get health insurance on your own and not from a group you might lose your insurance coverage if you get a catastrophic illness. It is legal for health insurance to annul your insurance contract; this is called rescission. Insurance companies can annul an insurance contract when the insured becomes very [...]

Nearly all types of breast cancer can metastasize. Cancer is staged so that it can be better understood. Breast cancer can take on so many changes during the illness, that it must be staged to better treat the disease. There are 7 stages to breast cancer; Stage 0, Stage I, Stage IIA, [...]

If you have a breast cyst, it is not cancerous. Cysts are benign. You can tell a difference between a lump that might be cancerous and a cyst. A lump does not move around when you palpate it with your fingers, and cysts do. Cysts are very smooth sacs filled with [...]

Breast cancer, like any other cancer, is staged to describe where the cancer is in the body, and where it has spread in the body, if there is metastasis. Staging identifies the size of a breast tumor, if there is one; staging also identifies the approximate size of lymph node tumors, if there are [...]

We need to do all we can to fund breast cancer research. Unfortunately, one out of every 9 women has breast cancer. Every day someone is being diagnosed with it, and every day someone is dying from this disease. There are different activities that you can get involved with to earn money [...]

It has long been held that a healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables that are chock full of antioxidants are cancer fighting foods. Many women have had breast cancer, and gone through treatment to get rid of the cancer, and find out dome time down the road the cancer has recurred. [...]