Breast+Cancer+-+RJ

====Breast Cancer   ==== ====media type="file" key="Cancer Commercial.mov" width="204" height="204"   ==== ==== What is breast cancer? ==== ====-Cancer that forms in tissues of the breast, usually the ducts and lobules. It occurs in both men and women, although male breast cancer is rare. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">-**Estimated new cases and deaths** from breast cancer in the United States in 2008:   ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">   ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">[|http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast </span]>   ==== ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">[[image:http://www.cancer.gov/images/spacer.gif width="20" height="1"]][[image:http://www.cancer.gov/images/bullet_sm_css.gif width="3" height="3"]]   ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">[[image:http://www.cancer.gov/images/spacer.gif width="5" height="1"]] New cases: 182,460 (female); 1,990 (male)    ==== ||
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|| ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">    ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)"> Treatment:   ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">-Radiation   ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">-Chemotherapy   ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">-Surgery   ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)"> *Removal of the tumor   ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)"> *Inserting tube to run chemo and radiation   ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">[[image:http://www.cancer.gov/images/spacer.gif width="20" height="1"]][[image:http://www.cancer.gov/images/bullet_sm_css.gif width="3" height="3"]]   ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">[[image:http://www.cancer.gov/images/spacer.gif width="5" height="1"]] Deaths: 40,480 (female); 450 (male)    ==== ||

====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">   ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">   ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)"> Certain factors affect prognosis (chance of recovery) and treatment options. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">The [|prognosis] (chance of recovery) and treatment options depend on the following:   ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">   ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">The [|stage] of the cancer (the size of the tumor and whether it is in the breast only or has spread to lymph nodes or other places in the body).   ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">The type of breast cancer.   ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">Estrogen-receptor and progesterone-receptor levels in the tumor tissue.   ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">Whether the cells have high levels of <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">[|human epidermal growth factor type 2 receptors]    ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">How fast the tumor is growing.   ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">A woman’s age, general health, and [|menopausal] status (whether a woman is still having [|menstrual periods]).   ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(8, 51, 129)">Whether the cancer has just been [|diagnosed] or has [|recurred] (come back).   ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> Stage 0 (carcinoma in situ) (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/breast/Patient/page2)  ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">There are 2 types of [|breast carcinoma in situ]: ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">[|Ductal carcinoma in situ] (DCIS) is a [|noninvasive] condition in which [|abnormal] [|cells] are found in the lining of a [|breast] [|duct]. The abnormal cells have not spread outside the duct to other [|tissues] in the breast. In some cases, DCIS may become [|invasive cancer] and spread to other tissues, although it is not known at this time how to predict which [|lesions] will become invasive. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">[|Lobular carcinoma in situ] (LCIS) is a condition in which [|abnormal] [|cells] are found in the [|lobules] of the [|breast]. This condition seldom becomes [|invasive cancer]; however, having lobular carcinoma in situ in one breast increases the risk of developing [|breast cancer] in either breast. ====

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====|| <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Enlarge || || || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">   || || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">  || || || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">  || || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> Pea, peanut, walnut, and lime show tumor sizes. ||====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">In [|stage I], cancer has formed. The [|tumor] is 2 [|centimeters] or smaller and has not spread outside the [|breast]. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">In [|stage IIA]: ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">no [|tumor] is found in the [|breast], but [|cancer] is found in the [|axillary lymph nodes] (the [|lymph nodes] under the arm); or ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">the tumor is 2 [|centimeters] or smaller and has spread to the axillary lymph nodes; or ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">the tumor is larger than 2 centimeters but not larger than 5 centimeters and has not spread to the axillary lymph nodes. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">In [|stage IIB], the [|tumor] is either: ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> larger than 2 [|centimeters] but not larger than 5 centimeters and has spread to the [|axillary lymph nodes]; or ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">larger than 5 centimeters but has not spread to the axillary lymph nodes. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">In [|stage IIIA]: ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">no [|tumor] is found in the [|breast]. [|Cancer] is found in [|axillary lymph nodes] that are attached to each other or to other structures, or cancer may be found in lymph nodes near the breastbone; or ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">the tumor is 2 [|centimeters] or smaller. Cancer has spread to axillary lymph nodes that are attached to each other or to other structures, or cancer may have spread to lymph nodes near the breastbone; or ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">the tumor is between 2 and 5 centimeters. Cancer has spread to axillary lymph nodes that are attached to each other or to other structures, or cancer may have spread to lymph nodes near the breastbone; or ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">the tumor is larger than 5 centimeters. Cancer has spread to axillary lymph nodes that may be attached to each other or to other structures, or cancer may have spread to lymph nodes near the breastbone. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">In [|stage IIIB], the [|tumor] may be any size and [|cancer]: ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">has spread to the [|chest wall] and/or the skin of the [|breast]; and ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">may have spread to [|axillary lymph nodes] that may be attached to each other or to other structures, or cancer may have spread to lymph nodes near the breastbone. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Cancer that has spread to the skin of the breast is [|inflammatory breast cancer]. See the section on [|Inflammatory Breast Cancer] for more information. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">In [|stage IIIC], there may be no sign of [|cancer] in the [|breast] or the [|tumor] may be any size and may have spread to the [|chest wall] and/or the skin of the breast. Also, cancer: ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">has spread to [|lymph nodes] above or below the collarbone; and ====
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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Cancer that has spread to the skin of the breast is [|inflammatory breast cancer]. See the section on [|Inflammatory Breast Cancer] for more information. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Stage IIIC [|breast cancer] is divided into [|operable] and [|inoperable] stage IIIC. ====

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 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> is found in ten or more [|axillary lymph nodes]; or ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> is found in lymph nodes below the collarbone; or ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> is found in axillary lymph nodes and in lymph nodes near the breastbone. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">In inoperable stage IIIC breast cancer, the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes above the collarbone. ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">In [|stage IV], the [|cancer] has spread to other [|organs] of the body, most often the bones, [|lungs], [|liver], or brain. ====

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