Breast Cancer

Breast cancer affects one in eight women during their lives. Breast cancer kills more women in the United States than any cancer except lung cancer. No one knows why some women get breast cancer, but there are a number of risk factors. Risks that you cannot change include

• Age - the chance of getting breast cancer rises as a woman gets older
• Genes - there are two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, that greatly increase the risk. Women who have family members with breast or ovarian cancer may wish to be tested.
• Personal factors - beginning periods before age 12 or going through menopause after age 55

Other risks include being overweight, using hormone replacement therapy (also called menopausal hormone therapy), taking birth control pills, drinking alcohol, not having children or having your first child after age 35 or having dense breasts.

Symptoms of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in size or shape of the breast or discharge from a nipple. Breast self-exam and mammographycan help find breast cancer early when it is most treatable. Treatment may consist of radiation, lumpectomy, mastectomy, chemotherapy and hormone therapy.

Men can have breast cancer, too, but the number of cases is small.

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Sources; NIH: National Cancer Institute

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Breast Massage During Pregnancy

This can be done when bathing. Previously prepared in the basin of warm water and cold water, coconut oil is clean (best if homemade) or baby oil, towels, and cotton.

Clean the breast using water, then massage using oil. Massage is done by using both hands, rotate around the breast sorted clockwise and then reverse / anti-clockwise. After that do the ordering from the bottom toward the nipple, but the nipple itself does not need in-massage for not glandulous but only a mere milk ducts.

After the massage, knock-knock the breast using fingertips or the tip knuckle. Point in order to work better blood circulation. Furthermore nipple cleaned using cotton and oil. This oil is useful in order to limber up and moisturize nipples nipples while breastfeeding is not easy future blisters.

Finally, clean the breast and nipple using warm water and cold. The objective is to facilitate the circulation of blood. After that dry disposable towel.