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In the case of breast conservation, radiation therapy is needed from the beginning, except in unusual circumstances.
Efforts to assure access to high quality radiation therapy should be made so that breast cancer does not require the loss of a breast.
Surgeons and pathology laboratories performing breast conservation need to be skilled in determining the adequacy of the procedure to assure patients of the best result.
Because breast cancer is so invasive and spreads so unpredictably, surgery is not always sufficient.
But treatment of cancer cells that may have spread beyond the breast is possible with systemic therapy, meaning drugs.
This is why treatment of breast cancer is ideally multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted, including not only local treatment of the breast but also systemic treatment for the entire body.
Hormone therapy takes advantage of the fact that many (but not all) breast cancers have receptors for the female hormones estrogen and progesterone.
A predictive test for responsiveness to chemotherapy would be a major step forward in treating breast cancer as it might allow more selective use of these agents.
For example, some aggressive breast cancers were found to have an excess of a protein called HER2.
Because the outlook for women can be improved if everyone conforms to best practice, the best available care must be provided to breast cancer’s victims even as we search for incremental steps forward.
My company, for example, is launching a portfolio of 15 essential medicines to treat diseases including diabetes, respiratory illnesses, and breast cancer.
We have two goals for the program: to expand access to affordable medicines to treat NCDs such as heart disease, type-2 diabetes, respiratory illnesses, and breast cancer; and to cooperate with local and international organizations to strengthen health-care systems.
Mutations in certain genes have been found to cause hereditary forms of breast and ovarian cancer.
(Inherited forms of breast and ovarian cancer are only a small fraction of the total.)
In some African countries, fewer than 15% of cancer patients survive for five years following diagnosis of cervical and breast cancer, diseases that are highly curable elsewhere in the world.
More than 250 studies have linked agrochemicals to several types of cancers, including cancers of the brain, breast, colon, liver, lungs, prostate, and thyroid.
Researchers also associated a common human herpes virus (HHV-6) and the Epstein-Barr virus with multiple sclerosis, linked adenovirus C with type I diabetes, and found that a human papillomavirus infection increases the risk of breast cancer.
Yet mothers have been separated from newborns in at least 15 countries – including at least six European countries – and prevented from breastfeeding in at least seven, even though there is no conclusive evidence that COVID-19 can be transmitted through breast milk.
For example, diabetes, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, arthritis, gout, heartburn, and gallstones, as well as cancer of the breast, intestine, and prostate, commonly arise from obesity and stress.
Just recently, Google announced that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of outperforming human radiologists in detecting breast cancer.
Similarly, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has already launched its Big Data for Breast Cancer (BD4BC) initiative, which includes a project using algorithmic analysis to tease out biological processes in some of the most difficult-to-treat breast cancers.
Moreover, biological innovation could reduce the global disease burden by 1-3% – roughly equivalent to the combined burden of lung, breast, and prostate cancer – in the next 10-20 years.
Still, losing the Title X funding – which would have been used for contraceptives, screenings for cervical and breast cancer and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and other essential health services – is a damaging blow.
He saw that a sigh had been suppressed within her breast and that the little hand in its long glove holding the candle trembled.
Therefore, O God our Lord, who sentest down Thy truth upon Thy heritage, and gavest Thy promises to our fathers from generation to generation of Thy chosen people, look down upon thy servant Constantine and Thy servant Catherine and strengthen them in their union with faith and concord in truth and love...'Levin felt more and more that his ideas of marriage and his dreams of how he would arrange his life had been but childishness, and that this was something he had never understood and was now still further from understanding, although it was happening to him; and in his breast a tremor rose higher and higher, and the unruly tears came to his eyes.
He stood before her, his eyes glittering terribly under his frowning brows, and pressed his powerful arms to his breast, as if trying with all his might to restrain himself.
With lusty cries and a sound of the beating of concave wings so peculiar to the double-snipe, a bird rose; and, following the report of the gun, it fell heavily on its white breast ten paces from the first spot into the wet bog.
I'm not a bit afraid,' she said on seeing his alarmed face, and she pressed his hand to her breast and then to her lips.
He turned away while Mary Vlasevna laid the child to the unaccustomed breast.
The baby had taken the breast.
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