How Breast Cancer Spreads
Invasive and Noninvsive Cancer cells
The Treatment
Types of treatment
Breast cancer forms from the wild reproduction of mutated cells in the breast. The fast, uncontrolled growth of the cells forms a tumor which can be seen or touched as a bump.
Lymphatic vessel are little veins, but instead, inside they have a fluid called lymph (rather than blood). The lymph has waste products and immune system cells. The breast cancer cells enter to the lymphatic vessels and start to reproduce in the lymph nodes which are small immune system cells.
If the cancer cells stay in the milk ducts it is called noninvasive because it does not invade to other parts of the body, but if the cancer cells have spread to other parts of the body it is called invasive. 80 percent of all the breast cancer is invasive type.
- The lymph system is one way that breast cancer can spread to other parts of the body. The lymph system has many important parts, one of them are the lymphatic vessels.
- Surgery is used to take out the tumor in the breast (an operation)
- Chemo therapy uses drugs to kill the cells that reproduce too fast, in this case in the breast, but it has many awful side effects such as nausea, you lose your hair, low pressure, ext.
- The biological therapy uses the body immune system to kill the cancer cells. Herceptin is a type of biological therapy which kills the cancer cells in the breast.
The treatment on breast cancer is depending on how big or small is the tumor and were in the breast is it. Also it’s important to know the age and general health of a person before giving an especific treatment.
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