BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH 12 Popular Breast Cancer Myths Busted
Dr. Manoj
Chellani who is an experienced infertility specialist of Ayush ICSI Test Tube Baby
Center, Raipur , Chhattisgarh, offers patients a combination of excellent
clinical expertise, strong experience and warm personal care , says
misconception about the breast cancer often become more painful for the women because
of the myths which prevail . Here are some common myths related to breast
cancer busted for you.
1. You only get
breast cancer if you have a family history. Who don't have a family history,
need not to worry about it.
Maximum numbers of
women with breast cancer have no family history of the disease. Even if no one
in your family has ever been diagnosed, that's no excuse to skip your yearly
mammogram. People are usually unaware about the risk associated with breast
cancer. Those who eat junk food are at increased risk of having breast cancer.
2. Women think
that if they are young then they need not to worry about breast cancer.
Women of any age can be
affected by breast cancer . Post-menopausal women are more likely to fall in
for the disease, but 25 percent of women with breast cancer are younger than
50. At the age of 40, younger women should have a yearly breast exam by their
doctor and begin mammographic screening. At the same time, you're never too old to get
breast cancer. If you feel a lump - at any age - have it checked out.
3. Taking of contraceptive pills increases the risk of
breast cancer.
Often women are found
avoiding the contraceptive pills as they feel that this will increase their
chances for having breast cancer. But truth is that the consumption of contraceptive
pills reduces the risk of breast cancer.
4.People hold the view that manual examination of the
breast should be done before menstrual cycle.
Ideally the manual
examination of breast is done immediately after the menstrual cycle.
5. Female
diagnosed with breast cancer think that are going to die.
With latest
technologies and much more advanced techniques now-a-days the healthcare experts
are able to successfully cure 85-90 percent of such cases. Though the breast
cancer that has metastasized, or spread to other parts of the body, poses the
greatest challenge. But the women with metastatic breast cancer often live for
years with their disease.
6. Any lump identified in the breast is cancerous.
Not every lump found in
the breast is cancerous. They could by cysts or a benign condition called
fibrocystic changes or fibroadenoma. Lumps could also be pre-cancerous
conditions that will need some treatment.
7. After
surviving for five years breast cancer won't return.
Breast cancer can recur
at any time, although it is more likely to happen within the first five to 10
years. 75 percent of women who will get a recurrence see it within six years,
and 25 percent recur in the 10 years after that.
8. People feel
that chemotherapy which is used to cure breast cancer will make them nauseated
and they will be vomiting all the time.
Chemotherapy does cause
nausea and vomiting. But in the last 10 years, new drugs have become available
that can almost completely control nausea, and very few people have persistent
nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy.
9. Instead of
taking help from doctors , breast cancer can be treated by herbal remedies and
dietary supplements .
No herbal remedy,
dietary supplement or alternative therapy has been scientifically proven to
treat breast cancer. Further, doctors do not know how these alternative
medicines may interact with established medicines - if they cause their own
side effects or interfere with the traditional therapy's effectiveness.
10. Taking healthy
diet, make immune to breast cancer.
Though diet does play a
role in cancer development, but not by itself. No one food or vitamin will
prevent breast cancer. At the same time, no one food is responsible for causing
cancer. Eat a healthy, balanced diet and strive to get a variety of nutrients.
11. If a breast
lump is painful it must not be cancer since cancerous lumps are supposed to be
painless.
Generally breast
cancers are painless, but pain alone cannot rule out cancer. Some women also
believe that a painless lump must not be cancer. Again, not true. There's no
correlation between whether the lump is painful and whether it's cancerous. Any
lump should be checked by a doctor.
12. If cancer
is exposed to air during surgery, it will spread.
Surgery will not cause
the cancer to spread. The only thing that will promote cancer spread is a delay
in diagnosis and failure to treat the cancer.
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