10 interesting facts about breast cancer
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Learn 10 interesting facts you probably didn't know about breast cancer. Read on to learn more!TRANSCRIPT
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10 InterestingFacts about
Breast Cancer
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Breast Cancer canAffect the Young
Aleisha Hunter, from Ontario, Canada, is theyoungest known survivor of breast cancer. In2010, Aleisha underwent a completemastectomy to treat her juvenile strain ofbreast cancer.
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The first operation to use anesthesia was a breast cancer procedure
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The left breast is statistically more likely to develop breast cancer than the right breast, butscientists are unsure why.
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Mastectomiesare Ancient
The first recorded mastectomy wasperformed on Theodora, theEmpress of Byzantine, in A.D 548.
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Just What is Metastatic?
After breast cancer spreads beyond the breast, it is classified as metastatic. The most commonlocations for metastasis includes the bones, liver, and lungs.
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Pregnancy Blues
Approximately 1 in 3000 women will develop breast cancer during pregnancy. Chances forsurvival for these women are less than breast cancer patients who do not develop the conditionduring pregnancy.
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Ancestry Matters
1 in 40 women of Ashkenazi (French, German, & East European) Jewish descent carry the breastcancer gene, which is significantly higher than the 1 in 500 to 800 people carry the gene in thegeneral population.
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Stay off the Hormones!
Breast cancer risk increases when a woman uses hormone replacement therapy for 5 ormore years. Risk is at its greatest when both estrogen and progesterone are taken together.
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Long ago, breast cancer was often called nun’s disease because of the high number of nunsaffected by the cancer.
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Densityis Risky
Women with a high breast density risk are 4 to 6 times more likely to develop breast cancer.
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1 in 8 women in the US will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, and for nearly 30% of them, the cancer will metastasize.
Today, an estimated 150,000 to 250,000 women and men are living with metastatic breast cancer in the US.
The average survival for a metastatic diagnosis is only 3 years.
Stats of Interest
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