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Understanding Breast Cancer

Cancer is a broad term for a class of diseases characterized by abnormal cells that grow and invade?healthy cells in the body.?Breast cancer starts in the cells of the breast as a group of cancer cells that can then invade surrounding tissues or spread (metastasize) to other areas of the body.

What Causes Cancer To Develop?

Cancer begins in the cells which are the basic building blocks that makeup tissue. Tissue is found in the breast and other parts of the body.?Sometimes, the process of cell growth goes wrong and new cells form when the body doesn’t need them and old or damaged cells do not die as they should.?When this occurs, a build-up of cells often forms a mass of tissue called a lump, growth, or?tumor.

Breast cancer occurs when malignant tumors develop in the breast.?These cells can spread by breaking away from the original tumor and entering blood vessels or lymph vessels, which branch into tissues throughout the body. When cancer cells travel to other parts of the body and begin damaging other tissues and organs, the process is called?metastasis.

When you’re told that you have breast cancer, it’s natural to wonder what may have caused the disease. But no one knows the exact causes of breast cancer. Doctors seldom know why one woman develops breast cancer and another doesn’t, and most women who have breast cancer will never be able to pinpoint an exact cause. What we do know is that breast cancer is always caused by damage to a cell’s DNA.

Let us all be wise. As they say, "Prevention is better than remedy". BCAM offers a wide variety of resources to help you fight against Breast Cancer.

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