I am doing a biology project on breast cancer what are some things I should put in it?

Answer 1

Breast cancer most often involves glandular breast cells in the ducts or lobules. Most patients present with an asymptomatic lump discovered during examination or screening mammography. Diagnosis is confirmed by biopsy. Treatment usually includes surgical excision, often with radiation therapy and adjuvant systemic therapy.
You may include symptoms (peau d' orange), treatment (such as, chemotherapy and Radiotherapy) and metastasis (spreading of cancer to other organs such as liver, bones and lungs).
peau d' orange (po-dor-ongzh') -- Term applied to the appearance of the skin over the breast in acute inflammation or in advanced carcinoma, when lymphœdema causes the orifices of the hair follicles to appear as dimples, resembling the pits in the skin of an orange.
Please see the web pages for more details and images on Breast cancer.

Answer 2

Here is a summary of Dr. Abel's findings on chemotherapy, and how it applies to breast cancer, and other types--


There are more and more reports by establishment oncologists doubting the value of chemotherapy, even to the point of rejecting it outright. One of these, cancer biostatistician Dr. Ulrich Abel, of Heidelberg, Germany, issued a monograph titled Chemotherapy of Advanced Epithelial Cancer in 1990. Epithelial cancers comprise the most common forms of adenocarcinoma: lung, breast, prostate, colon, etc. After ten years as a statistician in clinical oncology, Abel became increasingly uneasy. "A sober and unprejudiced analysis of the literature," he wrote, "has rarely revealed any therapeutic success by the regimens in question in treating advanced epithelial cancer." While chemotherapy is being used more and more extensively, more than a million people die worldwide of these cancers annually - and a majority have received some form of chemotherapy before dying. Abel further concluded, after polling hundreds of cancer doctors, "The personal view of many oncologists seems to be in striking contrast to communications intended for the public." Abel cited studies that have shown "that many oncologists would not take chemotherapy themselves if they had cancer." (The Cancer Chronicles, December, 1990.)
"Even though toxic drugs often do effect a response, such as a partial or complete shrinkage of the tumor, this reduction does not prolong expected survival," Abel finds. "Sometimes, in fact, the cancer returns more aggressively than before, since the chemo fosters the growth of resistant cell lines." Besides, the chemo has severely damaged the body's own defenses, the immune system and often the kidneys as well as the liver.
In an especially dramatic table, Dr. Abel displays the results of chemotherapy in patients with various types of cancers, as the improvement of survival rates, compared to untreated patients. This table shows:
-In colorectal cancer: No evidence survival is improved.
-Gastric cancer: No clear evidence.
-Pancreatic cancer: Study completely negative. Longer survival in control (untreated) group.
-Bladder: No clinical trial done.
-Breast cancer: No direct evidence that chemotherapy prolongs survival; its use is "ethically questionable."
-Ovarian cancer: No direct evidence.
-Cervix and uterus: No improved survival.
-Head and neck: No survival benefit but occasional shrinkage of tumors.

Answer 3

Breast Cancer Link list

American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/lrn/lrn_0....

Breast Cancer.net News
http://www.breastcancer.net/1.php

Breast Cancer in Men
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_is_male_breast_cancer_28.asp?sitearea=CRI

CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/...

Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation
http://cms.komen.org/komen/index.htm...

Low Cost or Free Mamograms in your area
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/cancercontacts/...

Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/breas...

National Breast Cancer Foundation
http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/

National Cancer Institute
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types.

Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Procedure
http://www.breastbiopsy.com/mammotome_th...

Y-Me national Breast Cancer Organization
http://www.y-me.org/

Terms:
mammography, breast ultrasound,lumpectomy, mastectomy, adriamycin/cytoxin (a/c) chemotherapy, radiation therapy, terminal lymph nodes, needle biopsy, stereotactic biopsy.
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Note -About the posting above about the Vitamin C therapy that Linus Pauling proposed? He died of prostate cancer..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling


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Note -about Dorothy's comment below...it may be on track...the rates of survival with chemo (or estrogen suppressing pills after chemo) are only about one or two more per hundred people as opposed to those who don't take it...only gives a very slight advantage...and many costs and side effects..that is true...

Answer 4

Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.

Answer 5

it is round with a pink dot.

Answer 6

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