A risk factor is anything that affects your chance of getting a disease, such as cancer.
Different cancers have different risk factors. For example, exposing skin to strong sunlight is a risk factor for skin cancer. Smoking is a risk factor for cancers of the lung, mouth, larynx (voice box), bladder, kidney, and several other organs.

But risk factors don't tell us everything. Having a risk factor, or even several, does not
mean that you will get the disease. Most women who have one or more breast cancer risk
factors never develop the disease, while many women with breast cancer have no
apparent risk factors (other than being a woman and growing older). Even when a woman
with risk factors develops breast cancer, it is hard to know just how much these factors
may have contributed to her cancer.

There are different kinds of risk factors. Some factors, like a person's age or race, can't be
changed. Others are linked to cancer-causing factors in the environment. Still others are
related personal behaviors, such as smoking, drinking, and diet. Some factors influence
risk more than others, and your risk for breast cancer can change over time, due to factors
such as aging or lifestyle.

Risk factors you cannot change : Gender, Aging , Genetic risk factors

 

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It is important to understand some of the key words used to describe breast cancer.

Carcinoma This is a term used to describe a cancer that begins in the lining layer (epithelial cells) of
organs like the breast. Nearly all breast cancers are carcinomas (either ductal carcinomas
or lobular carcinomas).

Adenocarcinoma An adenocarcinoma is a type of carcinoma that starts in glandular tissue (tissue that
makes and secretes a substance). The ducts and lobules of the breast are glandular tissue
(they make breast milk), so cancers starting in these areas are often called
adenocarcinomas.

Carcinoma in situ This term is used for the early stage of cancer, when it is confined to the layer of cells
where it began. In breast cancer, in situ means that the cancer cells remain confined to
ducts (ductal carcinoma in situ) or lobules (lobular carcinoma in situ). They have not
grown into (invaded) deeper tissues in the breast or spread to other organs in the body.
Carcinoma in situ of the breast is sometimes referred to as non-invasive or pre-invasive
breast cancer.

Invasive (infiltrating) carcinoma An invasive cancer is one that has already grown beyond the layer of cells where it
started (as opposed to carcinoma in situ). Most breast cancers are invasive carcinomas -either
invasive ductal carcinoma or invasive lobular carcinoma.

Sarcoma Sarcomas are cancers that start from connective tissues such as muscle tissue, fat tissue,
or blood vessels. Sarcomas of the breast are rare.

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Microscopic examination of tumor samples that can describe the histopathological of cell-structure of the suspected cancer tissue.

It also determines a person can be convicted of getting cancer or not. It is strongly influenced at all when taking biopsy material, it can represent the whole condition of the tumor or not.
There are several ways taking biopsies. This can be selected withconsideration of the location of the tumor, the effectiveness ofretrieval, the facilities available and the possibility of radicalismtumor itself.

Known to exist: an open biopsy (excision, and incisional biopsy),biopsy needles, trucut biopsy, punch biopsy, and curettage biopsy (biopsy scrapings). From this examination can be determined the type, nature of tumor cells, and levels of differentiation (a change) so that cells from the normal structure could be known just how fierce the tumor cells.
From this information the doctor can predict the outcome of therapythat will be given.

To do a biopsy examine can be performed before major surgery done(which is more recommended), or it could be at the time of surgeryas a therapeutic effort.

The most important thing in mind that whatever the outcome, the patient has the right to know and get the results of the pathology examination.

And by the way individual doctors must inform it directly to the patient. If the results of the biopsy came back positive cancer, a doctor may recommend a biopsy will be performed one week after treatment forcancer.Accuracy also depends on the accuracy of biopsies and the experience of the surgeon Pathology.
And the dangers if delayed much longer.

There is no certainty whether the biopsy can make the cancer cellsspread more rapidly or not.
There are doctors who say yes, there is also a doctor who said no.but one thing is for sure "neddle test" does not make the cancercells spread.

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If you find any lumps that did not previously exist, in a part of your body, what your attitudes and actions?
At first, you might wait if it is lost if the lump itself. If it is not lost is lost, eventually you go to the doctor for treatment.
The doctor will examine you and give you the medicine. If the lumpis gone then you are grateful and feel lucky to recover.
However, if the lump did not go down, what should be done? Your doctor can recommend to perform fine needle aspiration biopsy(FNAB)

FNAB is an act of checking a part of the body by injecting a fineneedle (smaller than a regular syringe) into the membenjol, thenperform aspiration (suction) to retrieve the contents of that bump.
Furthermore, the results of the straw material was sent to thepathologist doctor to be examined. Doctors pathologist will determine the type of disease on the bump.
After that your doctor will prescribe an appropriate treatment or the way the disease.

Is FNAB Danger?
Because using a fine needle, there is no danger or complications.

Does it painless?
The pain just a little, as usual when injected.

Do not spread the cancer cells?
There were no reports regarding the spread of cancer cells due toFNAB

Whether cause bleeding or cause scars on the skin?
Does not cause bleeding and does not cause scars on the skin, ifdone correctly

FNAB can determine whether the illnesses suffered what?
Results of FNAB is similar to using a knife biopsy results, so inmany circumstances can determine the diagnosis of disease

What organs can be examined FNAB?
Almost all parts of the body where there is an abnormal lump can be examined FNAB.
What often is: the neck glands, thyroid, salivary glands, breast, ortumors elsewhere.

Are there any benefits if the lump was examined FNAB?
Many benefits.

* If the result is an infection or inflammation, your doctor mayprescribe accordingly.
* Lumps due to bacterial infection of tuberculosis infectionsrequires a treatment different from other bacteria.
* When a cyst, then the contents of the liquid can be issued so that the bump mengempes. When a tumor is benign, it can be plannedfor surgery with your doctor Surgeons.
* When a tumor is malignant, it can be planned action oncologytreatment team (team of physician specialists who study the field ofcancer).
The diagnosis of cancer can be more quickly known, especially in breast cancer and thyroid cancer, so that treatment efforts can bemore quickly and more precisely rendered.
* The operation can be done right, possibly followed byradiotherapy and / or chemotherapy drugs.
The sooner the diagnosis, treatment sooner, the better the results.

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