Breast Cancer

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the incidence of breast cancer in the United States and how in any one year, the American Cancer Society predicts that over 200,000 women will be diagnosed. It looks at risk factors and early symptoms such as starting menstruation early, having menopause late; remaining childless via birth and giving birth for the first time at the age of 30 or older. It also discusses the various treatments available from mastectomies to chemotherapy and hormone replacement therapy.

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"Another concern is that menopausal women have been encouraged to take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to ease the symptoms of menopause. Some research suggested that HRT might help fight the development of osteoporosis and heat disease. However, research from Sweden has shown that some forms of HRT could account for 9% of their incidence of breast cancer (Napoli, 2003). An even more startling finding is that the surgery for breast cancer itself may cause cancer to spread. However, it might also be that even very small cancers have a tendency to spread undetected (Napoli, 2003). The surgical risk, if present, may extend to breast reconstruction surgery as well as the original surgery to remove the cancer."

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