First Signs of Breast Cancer

Initially, breast cancer may show no actual signs or symptoms that it is present, although a lump too small to be felt by touching may actually exist. Because of this, unusual changes in the breasts are not noticed and only tend to be picked up when a screening mammogram (breast x-ray) is taken. Depending on what the screening shows, further test may be needed.

However, the first sign of breast cancer is usually a painless lump that can be felt in the breast which was not previously there. Lumps that are hard with uneven edges have a high probability of being cancer; however, not all breast lumps tend to be hard. Sometimes a soft lump with rounded edges may also be discovered which can also indicate possible breast cancer.

Typical Breast Cancer Symptoms

1. Either a hard lump (with uneven edges), or a soft lump (with rounded edges) that can be found by touch in any part of the breast.

2. Any size lump or swelling that may appear in the area of the underarm (armpit).

3. Swelling of all or part of the breast.

4. General pain in the breast.

5. Nipple pain, or the nipple is noticed to be turning inwards.

6. Discharge of the nipple when not a new mother.

7. Thickening of the skin on either the nipple or the breast.

8. Redness or scaliness on either the nipple or the breast.

9. Skin irritation or dimpling of the breast.

10. Any type of change in the breast that seems to be abnormal.

Breast cancer can strike at any age, although it is more commonly found in women over the age of 50 years. Many different types of this cancer exist, such as: Ductual Carcinoma (DCIS), Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC), Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC), Inflammatory, Metastatic, Recurrent, and Male Breast Cancer, etc.

IDC is associated with approximately 70% of all breast cancer cases, and is now considered to be the most common. It is important to note that not all changes in the breasts are associated with cancer, as infections, lymph node swellings, and cysts are also quite common in women these days.

However, a self-examination of the breasts should be undertaken on a regular basis and if any irregularities are discovered, a prudent move would be to visit the doctor. Self-examinations are often considered to be best taken while in the shower, as the hot water and soap make the skin softer which makes it easier to find any small lumps that may be present.

By Philip Albert Edmonds-Hunt

Cancer care rationing begins in America as cancer clinics turn away thousands of Medicare patients

Federal sequestration measures that came into effect on April 1 are making it impossible for many cancer clinics across the country to administer conventional care to patients, and particularly to those on Medicare. Consequently, thousands of cancer patients with taxpayer-funded insurance coverage are being turned away, according to reports, as clinics simply do not have the capacity nor the funding to administer expensive pharmaceutical-based treatments such as chemotherapy.
According to the Washington Post, many cancer clinics are having to turn away patients without adequate coverage, or else face potential closure of their practices. Since many of the latest cancer drugs now cost upwards of $35,000 or more per year, it is grossly unsustainable to deliver such treatments to patients without adequate insurance coverage -- doing so would spell financial suicide for even the most successful and well-funded cancer clinics.
"If we treated the patients receiving the most expensive drugs, we'd be out of business in six months to a year," said Jeff Vacirca, chief executive of North Shore Hematology Oncology Associates in New York, to the Washington Post. "The drugs we're going to lose money on we're not going to administer right now."

Back in October, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, another New York-based cancer center, announced that it would not be administering an expensive new cancer drug known as Zaltrap (ziv-afilbercept), a Sanofi-Aventis creation designed to treat metastatic colorectal cancer. According to an op-ed piece published by The New York Times (NYT), an average month's worth of treatment with Zaltrap costs more than $11,000, or more than $132,000 per year.
"We don't sugar-coat things, we're cancer doctors," explained Charles Holladay, an oncologist at the Charleston Cancer Center in South Carolina, to the Washington Post. Holladay's facility began informing many of its government-covered patients several weeks ago that they would have to seek out alternative treatment options.
"We tell them that if we don't go this course, it's just a matter of time before we go out of business," he added.
Prevention, natural treatments are the keys to beating cancer and avoiding a total healthcare meltdown

Even if sequestration was not a factor in the current cancer treatment crisis, the ever-escalating costs of conventional cancer treatments would still be bankrupting an already-overburdened American healthcare system. The public at large is still not being informed about effective cancer prevention strategies, for instance, nor is there any effort whatsoever being made by public health authorities to teach people about effective natural cancer treatment options like the Gerson Therapy protocol, Indian black salve, and all-natural cannabis oil.
This, of course, is due to the fact that the conventional healthcare system is owned and operated by the pharmaceutical cartel, which has no interest in actually healing people. Instead, a sadistic combination of greed and eugenics is what drives healthcare, and especially the cancer industry, today -- and this death-care model is directly responsible for pushing the healthcare system to the precipice of complete destruction.
"With an aging global population and an endless conveyor belt of expensive new drugs and technologies and increasing financial pressures, the cost of cancer care in high-income countries is becoming unsustainable," said the journal The Lancet Oncology in a statement back in 2011 about the failure of the conventional cancer industry.

by: Ethan A. Huff
Sources for this article include:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.fiercepharma.com/
http://www.naturalnews.com

A New Bra That Can Detect Breast Cancer?

It claims to measure abnormal cell cycles right in your bra.  Would you try this device?

Mammograms could eventually be part of the past with a new technology about to hit the market. In fact, detecting breast cancer could be as easy as snapping on a bra -- and wouldn't that be nice?

The device named First Warning System™, is described on its website as "a novel breast health screening device and method based on disruptive technology and tissue health science."

The device collects 12 hours of cell data in your breasts just by being placed under your bra.

"Circadian rhythm-based temperature variances of cell cycles are measured to identify abnormalities at the earliest stages of cell augmentation. Powerful predictive analytic software analyses the tissue data producing an object result to the physician to enable a sound and robust clinical decision from the physician and patient," the website, FirstWarningsSystem.com, states.

The cancer-deteacting bra method has reportedly been tested on 650 women having an accuracy rate of 92.1 percent. One case involving a woman named Nedra Lindsay who agreed to be part of an early testing trial. Twenty years and a mastectomy later, Nedra is cancer free.

“I never thought it would be any use to me because I was so young,” she told NY CBS news about participating in the trial when she was just 25 years old.

Breast cancer remains the number one cancer killing women. In 2009, 211,731 women in the U.S. were diagnosed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

While the device has been in development for the past two decades, CBS reports it expects to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration in a year-- with a price tag around $200.

What do you think about this detection device? Do you think this could be a breakthrough in the battle against breast cancer? Share your opinion in the comments section below.

source: realself.com 

How Important Is Diet in Curing Breast Cancer

A cancer growth is just a sign that something is wrong within the body. Diet plays a big part in any cure for breast cancer because the food we eat is the body’s natural fuel which keeps us healthy and cancer free. The way to cure breast cancer is by using a little common sense, something that is sadly lacking with today’s treatments which are causing harm. A genuine cure can only be achieved when someone addresses the underlying cause of the problem which means changing your diet.

Breast cancer is predominately a disease of western societies and is largely due to the way we feed and treat our bodies with our artificial food and sedentary lifestyle. Cancer treatments of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are only trying to purge the body of all cancer cells and that doesn’t address the reasons why these foreign cells first grew. That’s why these treatments are often of little help.

The causes of breast cancer are well known but our doctors today are not taught the causes because it’s far more profitable to just treat the symptoms. It is only a modern day problem and only since the middle of the last century when our diet began to change. The highest rates are in all the Western developed countries and it’s uncommon as yet in undeveloped countries, so it’s not difficult to find the reasons why it is occurring.

The way to cure breast cancer is by making changes to your diet and that will remove the known causes and use the self-healing powers of the human body. The human body possesses a superb system of natural defences against all diseases, including cancer. It’s this same system that has kept the body healthy right through life by healing aches and pain, cuts and bruises, infections and even mending broken bones.

Breast cancer is caused by the way we live with our high consumption of food that is unnatural to humans. It’s our consumption of convenient or processed foods which are nutritionally

dead because of their processing. Some other causative factors are diets high in animal products, the consumption of alcohol everyday and the use of hormone therapy.

Our sedentary lifestyle also has a big influence on why there is so much breast cancer. These days we surround ourselves with labour saving devices, the motorcar being just one of them and none of which helps the human body get the exercise it so badly needs. The reason we need exercise is that our immune system, which is the system that keeps us healthy, needs muscular activity to allow it to function properly.

Breast cancer when first detected is primary cancer and nobody has ever died of primary cancer. It’s cancer that’s metastasis or shifted to another location that kills people. So your focus has to be on making sure the growth in the breast doesn’t spread to another area. There is only one way to do that and that’s with a natural approach in which diet is a big part. Doesn’t that make sense?

By making changes, especially with your food choices you are addressing and correcting the causes. The reason one gets breast cancer has very little to do with the breasts, that’s only where the symptom is. Removing the breast with surgery won’t stop it from spreading. You must address the underlying cause.

Breast cancer need not be a death sentence but it does pose a formidable challenge because it requires changes, something we’re not very good at. It is important to gain information, do the research because if you just listen to your doctor and follow explicitly what he or she says, that might not be very helpful.

Alan Wighton is an experienced natural therapist specializing in nutrition. This article is part of the information contained in his book on ways to overcome breast cancer. For further knowledge on how to remove breast cancer without toxic treatments by using the powerful natural healing ability of the human body

 by ALAN WIGHTON