What kind of women are breast cancer risk?
From breast cancer epidemiology of view, the occurrence of breast cancer worldwide each year is about 1.28 million women around, but the patient died of breast cancer is about 500,000. Even so, a variety of tumors in breast cancer treatment or the best one. From the international epidemiological situation, the world's highest breast cancer occurred, or in North America, the Nordic these places; Eastern Europe, Australia may be the incidence of middle; like China, the incidence was 18.7 per 100,000 in the whole around the world in terms of it is the lowest. But in our country such a low-fat, it also showed the incidence of unbalanced situation. Some of China's coastal regions such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou these economies more developed regions, is the highest incidence rates in the region. Such as Shanghai, Shanghai in 1972 started when the tumor registration statements, when the incidence is 17.7 per 30,000, but in 2003 the incidence of breast cancer in Shanghai is 61.2 per 100,000. After the age of standardized reached after 37/100000. In 2003 compared with 1972, the incidence has more than doubled.


 
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What are the factors and related to the occurrence of breast cancer?

Professor Shen: Clinical found that about 15% to 20% of breast cancer patients have family history. In addition, there are about 5 percent of hereditary breast cancer. Breast cancer incidence of the main endocrine told the body there are some relationships, that is, with the body's estrogen levels. If the following circumstances, you may be the occurrence of breast cancer high-risk groups.

1. Menarche younger than 12 years of age or menopausal age than 55 years of age.

2. First child of childbearing age more than 35 years old, or childbirth, postpartum non-breast-feeding.

3. Menstrual cycle short.

4. Postmenopausal obesity, weight gain or the use of estrogen replacement therapy.

People over the risk of occurrence of breast cancer is 1.3-3 times the normal population in need of special care!




Professor Shen said: The most effective way or periodic check-ups, women over the age of 40 do a check regularly on an annual basis. However, the 35-year-old woman does not recommend the following to do X-ray examination. Because the 35-year-old before her breast is relatively weak, particularly in the 25-year-old to 35 years old, if it is not marriage of course, does not recommend her to X-ray examination.

Suggest the women to do monthly self-examination, this has allowed us to early clinical lesions. It is very important, women's breasts If it is found that there are lumps, or recommendations to the hospital to check there.

If you do X-ray examination, but also not clear, magnetic resonance can be done, it can be done B ultrasonic examination, as B-ultrasound examination is a physical method, the breast will not cause any damage. Can also be done on the nipple fluid checks.

May be preventable and curable, but early

With early diagnosis of breast cancer by the attention the progress of treatment, clinical use of new drugs in recent years, breast cancer mortality rate decreased year by year. Therefore, the treatment of early breast cancer are: cure cancer, reduce the postoperative tumor recurrence and death risks, to extend free survival and prolong the survival time.

Beijing 307 Hospital of Professor Jiang Zefei talking about: there are a lot of breast cancer is now the opportunity to cure, if the 70's 80 personal illness, 20 people were killed, then in 90 years time despite more than 100 disease, and death is still or 20, meaning that despite the discovery of more cases, but the fact that more patients can stay away from the risk of death, so breast cancer is preventable and treatable.

Breast cancer treatment has been progress, there are currently dependent on hormone-receptor positive, there are dependent on targeted therapy and chemotherapy combined, there is a negative. Treatment in the future, we advocate, when you diagnosed with breast cancer when you can tell which belongs to the slow development of breast cancer, which belongs to the development of faster, because although the same breast cancer, but there are different types of diseases. Professional doctors will determine the different categories according to treatment.

At present, there are many new ways of treatment, but chemotherapy is still the most commonly used, the most critical treatment. In fact, the breast cancer treatment with other cancer treatments, as emphasized patient-centered, choice of surgical treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy and molecular target for treatment.