Alternative Cancer Treatment - Breast Cancer No Longer A Killer

Breast cancer continues to be a serious condition that affects 1 in 12 women at some point in their life. Fortunately, it is no longer always life threatening and doesn’t typically permanently scar individuals.

Breast cancer, like all cancers, were once very mysterious. While much remains unknown and an area of active research, the disease itself is fairly well understood. The underlying causes are still uncertain in some cases, but the manner in which it spreads and acts is much better known today.

The risks of breast cancer- who gets breast cancer, the negatives and positives of different treatments, the survivability rates and more are much better quantified.

While many claims are bogus, the effects of diet on an individual’s breast cancer are becoming clearer. Many questions are still out there, but diets and lifestyles that produce low estrogen levels have been deemed beneficial. Low fat diets contribute to that as does exercise on a regular basis.

Early detection and diagnosis has made tremendous improvements over the years and now a clump of as few as 50 cells containing cancer can be identified. Chemical tests used for early detection are now becoming cheaper and much more sophisticated. The use of ultrasound technology is also becoming more common. Treatments now range from the more traditional such as the lumpectomy or mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation to more advanced hormone treatments.

Even with all of the innovation that has occurred self-examination is one of the best practices. It is in the control of the individual an d makes it possible to determine anything that needs further investigation by more advanced methods. Mammograms are a relatively low cost, low risk, and a low discomfort method of tumor detections.

Recover is faster and fewer recurrences are seen because of more precise diagnosis and faster treatment. Digital mammography is computer aided analysis that makes reviewing the test results much more accurate than in the past.

Where, tragically, a woman or man has contracted breast cancer and requires surgery, improved reconstructive techniques have lessened the harm. The FDA has recently taken silicon implants off the forbidden list. Implantation and plastic surgery in general have become less onerous. Patients are now often out of the hospital the same day as the surgery.

It is normal in today’s world for almost 100% of the individuals who receive early diagnosis and treatment (treatment during stage 0 or stage I) to live longer than five years. Most of these individuals never have any recurrence at all and aren’t bothered by their breast cancer for the rest of their life.

This once almost invariably fatal disease hasn’t been reduced to the level of a mere annoyance. It remains a serious condition requiring careful consideration of all options. But thanks to modern medicine, while breast cancer once killed almost all its victims, individuals now typically enjoy a cancer free life after treatment.