Having breast cancer is bad enough?

Times have changed. Back in the dark ages, not that many decades ago, breast cancer was a secret shame, and often a death sentence. Women hid the diagnosis, and were helpless victims of a medical system that hadn't spent a lot of time or money dealing with the disease.

Having breast cancer was bad enough; the fact that it usually required the loss of one if not both of the woman's breasts, the most visible of her womanly attributes, was devastating to her self-esteem.

Nowadays, breast cancer is a pink ribbon cause-a rallying point for women's health issues and the leading edge of women's rising consciousness about how they are treated by the medical profession and medical research.

Based on the statistics,thousand and thousands of young women are added on this list of women diagnosed with breast cancer, that aren't given enough attention like proper genetic testing.
breast cancer is the most prevalent kind of cancer among women. These statistics show that over 25% of the cancers women are diagnosed with are breast cancer.The stats for age groups are even more startling. For the years 2000 through 2004, 95% of the new cases were found in women who were 40 years of age or older. Of all the deaths caused during this time, 97% of them were in this same group of women.

Though breast cancer rates are increasing in North America and the United Kingdom, the fatality rate is falling. This declining death rate is accredited to more women getting mammograms, better evaluation processes, and more potent secondary treatments.

Facts that are well known to have caused breast cancer are a diet high in animal fat, salt and refined sugar, having been on the contraception pill for many years, the regular consumption of alcohol, our sedentary lifestyle (i.e. not exercising) and the use of chemicals, especially underarm antiperspirants, sunscreens and hair dyes.

Facts that prevent and stop breast cancer from spreading are a healthy diet of fresh fruit and vegetables, vitamin D which you get freely from the sun, exercise and removing the known factors that have caused it.

Remember that true cures for cancer will only be achieved when a patient stimulates their own body's defense system.

This Breast Cancer Information blog dedicated to support and give information for women and it is intended for general information only.