| ast cancer signs and symptoms can be widely | | | | Some people also believe that if breast cancer |
| different for every woman. Some experience lumps, | | | | doesn’t run in the family they won’t |
| some experience skin changes that appear quite | | | | actually get breast cancer. This isn’t true at all. |
| drastic and other women get no definite signs of | | | | It is thought that nearly 80 percent of women who |
| breast cancer. | | | | have had breast cancer have no family history of the |
| Some women experience similar signs and symptoms | | | | disease. |
| of breast cancer when it may just be a simple | | | | It was reported years ago that antiperspirants can |
| infection or maybe a cyst. All women of all ages | | | | put women at risk of developing breast cancer. This |
| — from teens upwards — should check | | | | is unfounded and has never been proved that a link |
| their breasts for unusual lumps and bumps. If you | | | | between using antiperspirants and breast cancer |
| think you find a lump or your breasts feel and look | | | | even exists. It has also been reported that using birth |
| different, it is best to get an appointment with a | | | | control pills can contribute to a woman’s risk |
| doctor as soon as possible. | | | | of developing breast cancer. There are many studies |
| The prognosis of a diagnosis for breast cancer can | | | | done over time that show no founded link between |
| sometimes take many weeks and can include many | | | | the two. One of the studies combined all the |
| different types of testing to undergo. This can be | | | | information received from all of the other studies and |
| extremely frustrating and quite an upsetting time in | | | | found a very slight increase. This increase was over |
| any woman’s life. The up side of it is that | | | | time, but was not significant enough actually prove |
| once the prognosis has been made, you can start | | | | the link. |
| looking at the bigger picture. You can sit down with | | | | There has also been a lot of press about the |
| your doctors and formulate some kind of plan for | | | | association of high fat foods and the risk of breast |
| treatment which will be specifically tailored just for | | | | cancer. While eating high fat foods isn’t good |
| you. | | | | for health, there is no definitive research that the link |
| There are a few myths surrounding breast cancer | | | | between eating fatty foods and breast cancer |
| and the breast cancer facts. Let’s look at | | | | actually exists. This could be a misinterpretation of |
| some of the myths that you may or may not have | | | | the link between obesity and breast cancer which |
| heard before. | | | | does actually exist and has been proven many times. |
| Some people believe that breast cancer only | | | | If you make a lifestyle choice and eat lots of high fat |
| becomes a risk when you are older. This in some | | | | foods, you will eventually become overweight and |
| ways is true. However, younger women do get | | | | possibly obese. |
| breast cancer as well. | | | | |