What is breast cancer?

Some people are surprised to learn that breast cancer can affect both men and women. Male breast cancer is a rare but it happens. It develops in the pipes (tubes, the milk to take the nipple) and lobules (glands that make milk).

When breast cancer cells spread (metastasize), you are usually in the lymph nodes that are found near the breast. But spread to almost every other part of the body.

The top sites where breast cancer to spreads, are the bones, liver, lungs and brain. To set up in other institutions have the same type of cells and the same name as the original tumor tumors. That is, if it spreads to the bones, the cancer cells in the bones are breast cancer cells. The disease is "metastatic", not bone cancer and these types of cancer are treated as if they were breast cancer. Doctors call "distant" new tumor or metastases sometimes.

It, however, is not contagious, and it is not by bumps, bruises or touch the chest causing. Doctors and researchers know not why a woman will develop the disease and not others. But doctors and researchers agree that women with greater "risk factors" are rather contract to breast cancer.

Risk factors are associated with development of breast cancer:

Age: The most breast cancer is diagnosed in women in the age of 60. That's not to say, that younger women develop the disease will not. You certainly can and do.

Menopause: Menopause diagnosed more cases in women who have reached or in the past.

Family history: the risk of developing the disease is greatly increased if the woman's mother, sister or daughter had breast cancer. The risk is even higher if the female relative power before the age of 40.

Race: White women are more at risk for it as a Latina to develop Asian or African American women.

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