Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer to afflict women. Instead of the incidence of breast cancer decreasing though, all we seem to see is a steady increase in the number of cases of this cancer in women, most notably in the United States.
It’s anyone’s guess why it seems to afflict more women in the Northern half of America, but my hunch is it has a lot to do with the hectic lifestyles and often nutritionally lacking diets that us northerners seem to have adopted.
At any rate, there have been many advances in breast cancer research, as we’ve reported on many times at Breast News Magazine as they occur. These advances in breast cancer research have been on the treatment side, the detection and prevention side, and the advanced screenings that are being developed for the identification of necessary treatment based on one’s genetic profile.
It truly is a fascinating area of research right now, and luckily it is being given quite a bit of attention and importance by government funded medical studies, since basically women have demanded it, and this type of cancer is getting more and more common instead of less common. With that all said, see below for some of the exciting discoveries being made in breast cancer research.
Breast Cancer Research Areas Currently in Process :
1.) Genetic screening and gene identification research : This area of study has actually been recently started with several types of cancer, but most notably has gained a lot of attention and momentum with cancer of the breast, since this is the area they are closest to developing genetic tests that can identify a woman’s likelihood of developing this type of cancer.
This can help with earlier detection, as well as help identify and eliminate treatment options based on a woman’s genetic profile.
2.) Diagnostic research – Researchers are working on another important piece of breast cancer research in the area of detection and assessing the depth of spreading in the patient.
This can help determine much earlier on how agressive the breast cancer treatment should be, since this new test would take a sample of the patient’s blood, and from there would be able to determine whether the spreading of the cancer was rapidly progressing or not.
This can help save lives because an oncologist would be able to better gauge whether a treatment process is working or not, and change the treatment course or stick to it and tweak it depending on the response the patient’s body exhibits.
3.) Chemotherapy side effects study : A recent round of studies on how women with breast cancer are affected by a common treatment for many cancers, chemotherapy, which seeks out and destroys cancer cells, but in the process also greatly compromises a patient’s overall health by destroying healthy cells and destructive cells in the process is currently in process.
These studies have shown that chemo affects a patient’s health more than once thought, and the side effects are actually worse many times than can be predicted. Side effects of the chemotherapy as shown in previous research can be nausea, loss of appetite, loss of energy, hair loss, skin lesions and more side effects that have the potentially to seriously ravage the human body, and in my opinion, leave it in worse shape than the cancer itself would.
Hopefully this new research on breast cancer will open the way for funding of more alternative treatments for cancer which do not destroy the body in the process and allow the patient to enjoy a more productive and enoyable life while being treated for this potentially deadly disease.
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