Important Facts About Breast Cancer

Breast cancer may not generate any symptoms in its early stages. A tumor may be too tiny to be felt in many situations, yet an anomaly on mammography can still be noticed.If a tumor can be felt, the first symptom is generally the appearance of a new lump in the breast that was not previously there. Not all lumps, however, are cancerous.Each kind of breast cancer can produce a wide range of symptoms. Many of these symptoms are similar, but others may be distinct. The following are symptoms of the most prevalent breast cancers:

• a breast bulge or thickening that feels distinct from surrounding tissue and has lately acquired breast discomfort
• Swelling in all or part of your breast, with red, pitted skin
• Nipple discharge that is not breast milk
• Nipple discharge that is bloody peeling, scaling, or flaking of skin on your nipple or breast
• sudden and inexplicable change in the form or size of your breast inverted nipple changes in the look of your breast skin
• a bulge or bump beneath your arm

Breast Cancer Diagnosis

In addition to a breast exam, your doctor will perform a comprehensive physical exam to establish if your symptoms are caused by breast cancer or benign breast disease. They may also order one or more diagnostic tests to assist them to figure out what's causing your symptoms. The following tests can aid in the diagnosis of breast cancer:

• Mammogram: A mammography is the most frequent imaging test used to examine under the surface of your breast. Many women in their forties and fifties have yearly mammograms to screen for breast cancer. If your doctor believes you have a tumor or a worrisome area on your breast, she will order a mammogram.
• Ultrasound: A breast ultrasound creates an image of the tissues deep within your breast using sound waves. An ultrasound can assist your doctor in determining the difference between a solid mass, such as a tumor, and a benign cyst.
• Breast Biopsy: If your doctor suspects breast cancer, he or she may prescribe mammography as well as an ultrasound. If neither of these tests can determine if you have cancer, your doctor may do a breast biopsy.

1. During this test, your doctor will take a tissue sample from the suspected region and test it.
2. Breast biopsies are classified into various kinds.
3. In some of these tests, your doctor will take a tissue sample using a needle.
4. Others create an incision in your breast and then extract the sample.

Treatments for Breast Cancer

The stage of your breast cancer, the extent to which it has spread (if it has), and the size of the tumor all play a role in deciding the type of therapy you will require. To begin, your doctor will assess the size, stage, and grade of your cancer (how likely it is to grow and spread). Following that, you may talk about your therapy choices. The most frequent therapy for breast cancer is surgery. Chemotherapy, targeted therapy, radiation, and hormone therapy are all options for many patients.

Surgery

Breast cancer can be removed using a variety of surgical procedures, including:

• Lumpectomy: The tumor and some surrounding tissue are removed during this surgery, leaving the remainder of the breast intact.
• Mastectomy: A surgeon removes a whole breast during this surgery. Both breasts are removed during a double mastectomy.
• Biopsy of a sentinel node: This procedure involves the removal of a few lymph nodes that receive drainage from the tumor. The lymph nodes will be examined. You may not require further surgery to remove more lymph nodes if they do not have malignancy.
• Dissection of axillary lymph nodes: If cancer cells are found in lymph nodes removed during a sentinel node biopsy, your doctor may remove additional lymph nodes.

Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy is the use of high-powered radiation beams to target and kill cancer cells. External beam radiation is used in the majority of radiation treatments. A big machine on the exterior of the body is used in this procedure. Therapeutic advances have also enabled doctors to irradiate cancer from within the body.

Chemotherapy

It is a pharmacological treatment that is used to kill cancer cells. Some patients may get chemotherapy on its own, but it is frequently used in conjunction with other therapies, including surgery.In certain situations, doctors choose to provide chemotherapy to patients prior to surgery. The therapy is intended to reduce the tumor so that the operation will be less intrusive.

Medical centre in Abu Dhabi

Adam and Eve Specialized Medical Centre will help you in the early detection of breast cancer. Consult our obstetrics and gynaecology doctor if you think you are experiencing symptoms of breast cancer.