risk

Risk of Breast CancerThe term “risk” is used to refer to a number or percentage that describes how likely a certain event is to occur.When we talk about factors that can increase or decrease the risk of developing breast cancer, either for the first time or as a recurrence, we often talk about two different types of risk: absolute risk and relative risk.Absolute riskAbsolute risk is used to describe an individual’s likelihood of developing breast cancer. It is based on the number of people who will develop breast cancer within a certain time period. Absolute risk also can be stated as a percentage.When we say that 1 in 8 women in the United States, or 13%, will develop breast cancer over the course of a lifetime, we are talking about absolute risk.On average, an individual woman has a 1-in-8...

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risk of breast cancer

Breast Cancer RiskBy now you may be familiar with the statistic that says 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer. Many people misinterpret this to mean that, on any given day, they and the women they know have a 1-in-8 risk of developing the disease. That’s simply not true.People tend to have very different ways of viewing risk. For you, a 1-in-8 lifetime risk may seem like a high likelihood of getting breast cancer. Or you may turn this around and reason that there is a 7-in-8, or 87.5%, chance you will never get breast cancer, even if you live to age 80. How you view risk often depends on your individual situation — for example, whether you or many women you know have had breast cancer, or you have reason to believe you are at higher-than-normal risk for the disease — and your usual way...

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symptoms

Breast Cancer symptoms breast cancer may not cause any symptoms. A lump may be too small for you to feel or to cause any unusual changes you can notice on your own. Often, an abnormal area turns up on a screening mammogram (x-ray of the breast), which leads to further testing.According to the American Cancer Society, any of the following unusual changes in the breast can be a symptom of breast cancer:swelling of all or part of the breastskin irritation or dimplingbreast painnipple pain or the nipple turning inwardredness, scaliness, or thickening of the nipple or breast skina nipple discharge other than breast milka lump in the underarm areaThese changes also can be signs of less serious conditions that are not cancerous, such as an infection or a cyst. It’s important to get any breast changes...

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Breast cancer is always caused by a genetic abnormality (a “mistake” in the genetic material). However, only 5-10% of cancers are due to an abnormality inherited from your mother or father. About 90% of breast cancers are due to genetic abnormalities that happen as a result of the aging process and the “wear and tear” of life in general.While there are steps every person can take to help the body stay as healthy as possible (such as eating a balanced diet, not smoking, limiting alcohol, and exercising regularly), breast cancer is never anyone's fault. Feeling guilty, or telling yourself that breast cancer happened because of something you or anyone else did, is not productive.Over time, cancer cells can invade nearby healthy breast tissue and make their way into the underarm lymph nodes, small...

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breast cancer

What Is Breast Cancer?Breast cancer is an uncontrolled growth of breast cells. To better understand breast cancer, it helps to understand how any cancer can develop.Cancer occurs as a result of mutations, or abnormal changes, in the genes responsible for regulating the growth of cells and keeping them healthy.The genes are in each cell’s nucleus, which acts as the “control room” of each cell. Normally, the cells in our bodies replace themselves through an orderly process of cell growth:healthy new cells take over as old ones die out. But over time, mutations can “turn on” certain genes and “turn off” others in a cell. That changed cell gains the ability to keep dividing without control or order, producing more cells just like it and forming a tumor.Usually breast cancer either begins in the...

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Accreditation of cancer

Accreditation and AffiliationOur cancer program is accredited by the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Radiology, a distinction that means we meet high standards for access to care, technology, multidisciplinary care, information and education. Cape Cod Healthcare is affiliated with distinguished cancer treatment centers including Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, and the adult oncology collaboration among Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition, we are affiliated with Women & Infants Hospital, Boston Medical Center and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). These affiliations enable us to offer the most current cancer protocols available and to participate in clinical trials for new treatments.A regional...

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COPING WITH ANGER It is the rare survivor that understands and handles anger in an effective way. Many survivors are completely numb and do not allow themselves to feel their anger. Others direct their anger outward, destroying property, yelling and screaming, name-calling or even becoming abusive themselves. Still others direct it inward in the form of depression, self-hatred, and self-harm or neglect. Babies have all kinds of habits, needs, and emotions that parents prohibit: sloppiness, anger, greediness, jealousy, self-centered demands, etc. As a child, we all learned that parts of ourselves were bad. This self-hatred becomes automated in the form of depression, which both punishes us and drowns out other feelings too. understading anger. Theories and Facts from Psychological Self-Help...

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Major Types of DiabetesType 1 diabetesResults from the body's failure to produce insulin, the hormone that "unlocks" the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. It is estimated that 5-10% of Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.Type 2 diabetesResults from insulin resistance (a condition in which the body fails to properly use insulin), combined with relative insulin deficiency. Most Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.Gestational diabetesImmediately after pregnancy, 5% to 10% of women with gestational diabetes are found to have diabetes, usually, typePosted by nena at 9:21 AM 0 commentsTuesday, October 7, 2008The standard definition of diabetes mellitus is excessive glucose in a blood sample and in other words, you have...

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Risk

Risk of blood pressureHowever the risks which lead to high blood presure and cardiovascular disease should be known. Some risk factors can be changed. These include smoking, lack of exercise and obesity. An unhealthy diet also increases the risk of high blood pressure. The intake of too much of sodium and salt leads to hypertension. One should also control the intake of alcohol as excessive alcohol in the system increases the risk of hypertension.Some factors leading to hypertension can be cured or treated. High amounts of cholesterol in the blood, high amounts of fat in the blood, diabetes and diseases of the kidney the affect its function.One suffering from any such casualties should immediately seek professional medical help which may help reduce hypertension. It also affects our eyes and...

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Blood Pressure

what is Blood Pressure In Pre-hypertension, each heartbeat generates a force which is transferred to the blood. This force is carried through into the arteries as blood is expelled from the heart.The presure thus caused pushes against the walls of the arteries and the walls push back. This causes the blood to be propelled forward into various parts of the body.On an average, the normal human heart beats almost 90,000 times every day.if the pressure of the blood is too high, a blood vessel could be damaged and even ruptured causing complications like bleeding.If the blood presure is not enough, the required amount of blood does not reach all the parts of the body, hence the cells do not receive the necessary amount of oxygen and nutrients and the waste products may not be removed adequately....

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Eating for a Healthy Heart

Nutrition and Diet to Help Prevent Heart Disease Recent studies have suggested that eating a heart-healthy diet can cut the risk of developing heart disease or stroke by 80%. Considering that heart disease is still the number one killer of both men and women in the United States, this is news worth considering! Weight control and exercise are the first steps to a healthy heart, but there are additional ways to boost the body’s immunity to heart disease. Take a closer look at how specific food choices impact our ability to help manage or prevent heart disease and high blood pressure— two of the biggest health challenges we face today. ...

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Allergic To Everything will teach you how to protect yourself from toxic chemicals and poisonous practices before you ingest any of the products on the latest recall lists. DISCOVER HOW "safe" practices and processes may already be harming or killing you...and how to determine which items you put on or in your body are truly safe for consumption. You may be the most diligent consumer, yet still be taking home bags and bags of toxic chemicals from the grocery store each and every visit. Sure you read labels, but do you really know what they mean? How many of those twelve syllable words can you actually pronounce, let alone understand, ...

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The Healing Power of a Slinky Posted"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body." ~ Cicero In ancient Greece, doctors served the God of medicine, Askeplios, while healers served the God of health, Hygeia. Medicine means “the tool by which to restore health by correcting imperfections.” Health means “the natural order of things.” These are two contrasting views. So many prescription drugs simply suppress disease rather than correct disease. Sometimes suppression is beneficial and absolutely necessary. But as Dr. Andrew Weil says, by aligning with the natural order, one triggers the body’s tremendous healing capacity and need not be so dependent on the outside cure.* The “natural order” might sound intimidating like a 30 day fast; or a special diet to suit...

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Notes

Some Notes on Fasting In relation to the article, "Perfect Health," I received some six or eight hundred letters from people who either had fasted, or desired to fast and sought for further information. The letters shared a general uniformity which made clear to me that I had not been sufficiently explicit upon several important points. The question most commonly asked was how long should one fast, and how one should judge of the time to stop. I personally have never taken a "complete fast," and so I hesitate in recommending this to any one. I have fasted twelve days on two occasions. In both cases I broke my fast because I found myself feeling weak and wanted to be about a good deal. In neither case was I hungry, although hunger quickly returned....

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Diffrent disease info

Keep cholestrole down: LDL (the “bad” cholesterol) level down under 100 is a target level. It’s also helpful to raise the “good” or HDL level with an increase in aerobic exercise, weight loss and dietary changes. An optimal diet is low in animal (saturated) and hydrogenated fats, low in sugar and refined grains (e.g. white flour, white rice, white pasta & bread) and high in fiber. You should be getting about 20 grams of fiber daily for every 1000 calories you eat.Lower your Lipoprotein(a): Lipoprotein(a) is one of the “bad” forms of cholesterol, with a particular tendency to run in families and cause stroke. Lp(a) levels can be lowered with supplemental vitamin B3, a.k.a. niacin. Before you start taking niacin supplements check your Lp(a) level with a fasting blood test – your result should...

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Alzheimer's disease information

Alzheimer’s disease currently affects about 4 million Americans and is the 8th leading cause of death, accounting for about 50,000 deaths per year in the U.S. The chance of having Alzheimer’s disease doubles every 4 to 5 years after the age of sixty. Although the risk at age 60 is low (1%), by the age of 75 this reaches almost 10%, and by age 85 between a third and half of Americans have some form of dementia (of which about 75% are the Alzheimer’s type of dementia). Estimates place the risk at about two-thirds of Americans age 90 and above. This is particularly disturbing news for all of us, since the average American lifespan has been steadily increasing – most women will live to be over 80, and men now average over 75, which means that more than one in ten of us will develop Alzheimer’s...

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