Any nipple that is more indented than it is distending (protruding) can be considered as inverted nipple. Inverted nipples can be a problem for women – reducing their self-confidence and sexual attractiveness. Inverted nipple can cause physiological distress...
Normal healthy nipple usually projects (“pop out”) to different degrees depending on stimulation. If traction on the nipple skin is too strong, nipple inversion occurs. Anything that changes the traction of the breast structures can cause inverted nipples. According...
Breast cancer symptoms are well known and described by many health experts but unfortunately most women don’t pay enough attention to detectable and visible signs of breast cancer. Breast cancer starts when normal cells transform into cancerous cells and these breast...
Nobody knows why one person develops cancer and another does not. Some scientists highlight genetic factors, others mention environment and geo factors (radiation, sunlight, “poisoned” food and water) and most researchers recommend to pay a special attention to cancer...
Paget disease of the breast (Paget disease of the nipple, mammary Paget disease) is a rare type of breast cancer – it involves the skin of the nipple and areola (darker circle of skin around it). According to health experts, Paget’s disease occurs in menopausal...
During last decade several scientists mentioned that vitamin D may affect breast cancer survival. Recent studies confirm that vitamin D levels could affect breast cancer survival – women with higher vitamin D levels at diagnosis had better overall survival rates....
Cancer is the second leading killer after heart disease. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women – every VI-VIII woman suffers from breast cancer. Modern medicine can treat breast cancer very successfully MOSTLY if breast cancer is diagnosed at very...
Healthy nipples are most times “pop out” or become visible after stimulation or temperature changes. Any nipple that is more indented than protruding can be considered as inverted nipple which should not be confused with so called “flat nipples” which are lying flat...
Unfortunately sisters of women with breast cancer have higher risk of getting same cancer forever – higher than average risk of breast cancer. This increased breast cancer risk lasts a lifetime for breast cancer sisters. But only about 13% of women diagnosed...
Breast cancer is always a dramatic stress for woman but it is also pretty stressful for family members. But nobody in the family can feel the same emotional and physical suffer as woman with breast cancer. This is why thousands of breast cancer societies and...
Breast cancer is one of most dangerous diseases women could have. Unfortunately sometimes symptoms of breast cancer appear too late and only screening mammography can discover cancerous small tumor. But in most cases women don’t pay attention to signs which are...
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women. Mammography is very common test for breast screening programs – it is actually X-ray of the breast (two X-ray pictures of each breast). This screening tool is used for breast cancer detection and precise...
Early breast cancer diagnosis can save lives and insure effective treatment and high survival rates. This why, it is very important to know all possible breast cancer tests. Breast cancer screening tests are used to find breast cancer before it trigger obvious...
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women – 1 in 8 women (about 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Most commonly breast cancer diagnosed in women but sometimes it also could appear in men. In both cases signs of...
Every woman should know breast cancer symptoms because breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women after 50. Breast cancer develops from atypical or cancerous cells in the lining of a duct or lobule in one of the breasts. Breast cancer types, breast...
