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pain in left breast, is breast cancer possible at age 19?

I was working on the shed in our old house, sorting and lifting things for our upcoming yard sale, and when I got home last night, I took a shower, and went to bed. It took me a while to get to sleep, and when I got up to get a drink of water before going to sleep, I felt a sharp pain in my lower left breast, right where the breast and rest of the body meet. It’s also in the whole lower half of my left breast. I noticed that it’s just as sore today. And when I felt it, it felt like there was a lump in the lower part, where the pain is. Does this sound like breast cancer or just a pulled muscle? Should I be worried? I’m a slight hypocondriac about certain things, so I’m a little worried. Should I be? Anyway, is it possible to get breast cancer at age 19?

help is it possible to have breast cancer at the age of 12?

ok so i started my period in july and im 12 years old and in both of my breasts their is one lump about the height and the length of a hamburger patty i told my mom and she said it probably not breast cancer don’t worry but i am! is it breast cancer or not please help me!! i want to live!!

Doctors brace for possible big Medicare pay cuts

Doctors brace for possible big Medicare pay cuts
Breast cancer surgeon Kathryn Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients’ health: She’ll stop taking new Medicare cases if Congress allows looming cuts in doctors’…

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is breast cancer possible at the age of 17?

I have a realy close friend that is only 17 and says she feels a lump in her breast, it does not hurt, and sometimes she feels like it is getting smaller, do u guys think this might be cancer? or might is be just extra tissue?

Meeting will address possible health risks associated with wireless connections

Meeting will address possible health risks associated with wireless connections
Parents alarmed about possible health risks associated with wireless connections in Bluewater and Simcoe area public schools have organized information meetings at the Thornbury library Wednesday at 4 and 7 p.m.[...]

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is it possible to have breast cancer at the age of 13?

and how would u test for lumps? cuz i think i feel abnormal bumps…. and im scared cuz it runs in my family ilke every girl on my dad side has had it!

Possible Complications of Breast Cancer Surgery

What is Breast Cancer?

The term breast cancer refers to a malignant tumor that has developed from cells in the breast. The breast is composed of two main types of tissues: glandular tissues and stromal (supporting) tissues. Glandular tissues house the milk-producing glands (lobules) and the ducts (the milk passages) while stromal tissues include fatty and fibrous connective tissues of the breast. The breast is also made up of lymphatic tissue-immune system tissue that removes cellular fluids and waste.

Symptoms of Breast Cancer

Early breast cancer usually does not cause pain. In fact, when it first develops, breast cancer may cause no symptoms at all.

But as the cancer grows, it can cause these changes:

1. A lump or thickening in the breast or armpit.

2. A change in the size or shape of the breast.

3. Discharge from the nipple.

4. A change in the color or texture of the skin of the breast or areola (such as dimpling, puckering, or scaliness).

Complications of Breast Cancer Surgery

Lymphedema

Lymphedema occurs when a clear fluid known as lymphatic fluid builds up in the soft tissues of your body, usually in an arm or leg. The lymphatic system consists of lymph vessels and lymph nodes that run through your body. Lymph vessels collect a fluid that is made up of protein, water, fats, and wastes from the cells of the body. Lymph vessels carry this fluid to your lymph nodes.

Lymph nodes filter waste materials and foreign products, and then return the fluid to your blood. If your vessels or nodes become damaged or are missing, the lymph fluid cannot move freely through the system. The fluids can then build up and cause swelling, known as lymphedema, in the affected arms or legs.

What are the symptoms?

If you have lymphedema, you may not develop symptoms immediately. Sometimes symptoms occur 15 or more years following an injury to your lymphatic system. When symptoms eventually occur, they can include:

* Aching, weakness, redness, heaviness, or tightness in one of your limbs,

* Less flexibility in your wrist or ankle and

* Tight-fitting rings or shoes.

What causes lymphedema?

The most common causes of secondary lymphedema are surgery or radiation treatment for certain types of cancer, such as breast and testicular cancers. Other causes of lymphedema include surgery on the blood vessels in your limbs or other surgical procedures, like liposuction, as well as burns.

How is lymphedema treated?

If you are at risk for developing lymphedema, you can act to prevent it. Initially, if you have mild lymphedema, you can act to keep the condition from worsening.

* Clean your affected limb regularly. Remember to dry it thoroughly and apply lotion * Wear gloves while gardening and cooking

* If you shave the affected area, use an electric razor

* Don’t go barefoot

* Do not cross your legs when you sit and

* Do not carry a handbag with your affected arm.

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Is it possible for a guy to have breast cancer?

You know like if they’re crazy for Micky D’s and they get a little big…or is it only the female breast tissue that can get breast cancer?

Just a random question=)

He had cancer of the colon with liver metastases and lived a further 20 years – how is that possible

Old Bill was a real character. He had been diagnosed with cancer of the colon and liver metastases, given a maximum life expectancy of eight weeks and yet he lived life to the full for a further 20 years. This is very, very unusual, so what made the difference?

Bill, or Old Bill, as the elderly man was affectionately known in his local community, was interviewed as part of research into unexpected recoveries in what was usually considered terminal illnesses. The paper was published in 2008 in the Qualitative Health Research journal.

Old Bill had been an outback farmer living and working down a long back road in the middle of nowhere with only his wife and animals for company. Like many older men when he started to get troubles in his lower tummy he ignored it as long as he could. After many months things suddenly became acute. He was unable to go to the toilet any more and he had an emergency trip to the big city hospital.

He needed surgery to deal with his blockage. Then to the horror of the operating surgeon and nurses they discovered not only cancer of the colon but it had metastasized into extensive cancer of his liver. Regretfully they “tidied him up a little,” and transferred him home to his local community hospital to be near his family for his last few weeks. Everyone in the local hospital, including Bill, knew he had been given a maximum life expectancy of two to eight weeks. He was not expected to leave the community hospital.

However others’ expectations were not about to bother Old Bill. As soon as his wound had healed sufficiently Old Bill set about tidying up his life. He immediately leased out his farm, because he didn’t see any reason to go on working for his last few months of his life and he and his wife moved into the local tourist town to enjoy the time they had left. For Bill this meant that he spent as much time as he could in the local hotel.

This wasn’t any ordinary hotel, but one in the main street of the little tourist town they had moved to; one with the low ceilings and smoke entrenched fittings that had been there since the times of the gold rush. Old Bill became a story teller and he used to spend hours each day drinking alcohol paid for by tourists passing through and spinning yarns about the early days and what it was like as the local “strong man” and bullock driver before trucks used to take the wool to the markets.

Old Bill outlasted his wife who died of breast cancer a few years after they shifted into town. He nursed her for as long as he could before she had to go to hospital for her last few weeks. Bill’s medical practitioner who cared for him was totally bemused as to how and why Bill could survive so long when his prognosis was so poor and yet so many, like his wife could die quickly when they theoretically could have survived much longer.

This was the same question which drove the research in the first place. Medicine has always known that some people do much worse than expected and some people do much better than would be expected. Usually when people do much better than expected doctors talk about spontaneous remission or the placebo effect, but this doesn’t actually explain anything, other than give unexpected recovery a name.

Health psychology has provided some answers, but not enough to provide useful information for patients who are faced with a serious diagnosis or for their medical carers who might like to provide psycho-social support.

The Qualitative Health Research paper showed that Bill and others like him who had survived unexpectedly all had very similar ways of living their lives. It didn’t matter what age they were, or their educational background or whether they were male or female they all had the same quality of resiliency.

Those who survived terminal illness all learned how to be resilient during the time they were ill. Most did this intuitively, although several in the study set out to learn how to do it. Surviving liver metastases for 20 years is very rare, but the fact that one person can do it means that there is a physical pathway for it to occur. Where there is a physical pathway there is legitimate hope for others who find themselves in the same situation.

Is it possible to have breast cancer and not have a lump?

I get a acidy feel to my breast area and like a itchness to it on the same area, but no red marks. I have been to two doctors who have done a manual exam on me and they said no lumps, they were GYN doctors too. I have a March appt for a mamogram, but just nervous.