Why is there so many cases of breast cancer these days? Has breast cancer always been this prominant or is modern technology causing more cases? I was just curious. It's very scary.
2006-10-25 09:21:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
these diseases always existed it's with modern technology that physicians have been able to recognize and label it, it's the media that spreads the word and it's people like you and I that continue to raise funds for additional education, awareness and hopefully a cure. More women breast feed their children 100 years ago than today and the mortality rate was a lot higher due to the lack of medical attention, drugs, etc.
2006-10-25 09:23:59 · answer #1 · answered by tampico 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is difficulty in answering this question because 100 years ago people with breast cancer ultimately died from it. There wasn't any treatment protocol to stop cancer, so cancer was a death sentence.
So what we are really witnessing isn't more cases of breast cancer, but more people SURVIVING breast cancer for longer periods of time.
Modern technology is not causing cancer. Modern technology is detecting cancer earlier and providing the means to fight off the cancer
successfully.
Cancer is scary. But there is more hope with each passing day that we will find the answers we need to make cancer a thing of the past.
2006-10-25 12:31:41 · answer #2 · answered by Panda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the other posters have noted, better technology has allowed us to find cancer, treat cancer and survive cancer. With the medica and internet, we have been able to get the word out about cancer and other medical issues.
But to better answer your question, people were not living till the ages of 60,70,80 and beyond - a 100 years ago. Most medical professionals don't even suggest breast cancer tests untill after the age of 40. A hundred years ago, treating cancer at 40 is like treting cancer on a patient today who is 75 - the doctors won't treat it. But again, they did not have technology to find cancer a 100 years ago, and of course didn't have treatments for it.
2006-10-25 11:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by phillyboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until recently, ductal carcinoma in situ was a relatively uncommon disease, representing only about 1% of all newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer. It was usually regarded as a single disease with a single treatment, namely, mastectomy. Most patients presenting with ductal carcinoma in situ had symptoms a palpable mass or discharge from the nipple. During the past decade, as mammography has become more widely used and technically better, the number of new cases has increased dramatically. Most patients now present with lesions that are not palpable and are clinically occult.
It would be best to use preventative therapies like eating more cruciferous vegetables, flaxseed meal, cultured soy products like miso, and consume supplemental tumeric, and other natural chemopreventative herbs. If you want to find substantiation for their efficacy go to www.pubmed.com and type in "breast cancer," and "tumeric," and you will find clinical studies that get no expose because they are not patented (not profitable), despite their efficacy.
2006-10-25 17:43:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about mammograms and radiation = more cancer. I had 2 mamms in my early 50's and none since and I'm 77. I work on prevention and powerful antioxidants which include pycnogenol and grape seed ex...which are now being used in many cancer research labs.
2015-10-20 08:23:59 · answer #5 · answered by JOYCE 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you're right. I remember that when I was young cancer was almost unheard of. Now it seems like everybody dies of it. Maybe medical science can recognize things they previously could not. Or maybe there are so many pollutants around that there is a lot more cancer. I think both are true.
2006-10-25 09:48:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were not very good methods of diagnosing and keeping accurate records in years past, but there seems to be a big increase in the incidence. I believe it is due to a decline in the quality of the food we eat today which lowers our immunity, and our increased levels of stress and exposure to toxins and pollutants which were unknown in the past. We also have better systems for detecting and diagnosing it in a larger portion of the population now.
2006-10-25 11:03:05 · answer #7 · answered by Mad Roy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i think that breast cancer has increased over the years but i don't know why. Thanx for the 2 points.
2006-10-25 09:23:01 · answer #8 · answered by OldMovieFan12 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
a big part of it is simply because people are living longer. before people died of other stuff before they got to ages where cancer was really prevalent
2006-10-25 09:27:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋