Breast caner

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BREAST CANCER

What is breast cancer ???

Breast cancer is a malignant tumor

Although breast cancer predominantly occurs in women it can also affect men

There are so many types of mutations some are more common than others , and there are also combinations of cancer

The most common type of cancer is ducal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)

Breast cancer different tumor size

Stages of breast cancer

There are 4 stages of

breast cancer

Stage #1

It means you have

T-1 tumor and clear

lymph nodes with

no evidence of

metastasis

STAGE 2 HAS AT LEAST

THREE SUBDIVITIONS AND

CONBINATIONS OF

T1 T2 AND T 3 TUMOR POSITIVE

NEGATIVE LYMPHNODES

STAGE 3 it has at least

three subdivisions which come from a mix

of any size of tumor

Stage 4

Is also call metastric breast cancer and its rated by having any size of the tumor positive lymph nodes

In 2011there were more than 2.6 million breast cancer survivors in

the U.S 85% breast cancer occur in women who have no family history of breast

cancer

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