Thursday, December 24, 2009

Treat Early

Any woman can get breast cancer. From the age of adolescence till the breast cancer can be prevented and cured if it is identified at a very early stag. There are many ways of detecting breast cancer. The simplest way is to do self-examination. This is done by lying down on the bed with a pillow under the shoulder of that side on which you are going to check your breast. Now, you need to gently run your fingers all over your breast and feel for any hard lumps inside the breast.

Of course, there is no necessity for this to be a cancer, but then there is a high possibility that it could. The next step would be to take a mammogram. How ever, the accuracy of a mammogram cant be taken as 100%. Hence, if you are still not sure, you need to go for a MRI scan. The MRI scan has a higher success rate in identifying breast cancer than any other procedure.

With these three tests done, your doctor will be able to tell you if you have breast cancer or not. Chemotherapy is one way in which you can cure breast cancer. How ever, you need to detect it early if you dint want your breasts to be amputated or loose your life due to the spreading of the disease. Remember, breast cancer when detected early can be cured.

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