The female breast is a familiar structure on the human body. It comes in multiplicity of different sizes and shapes. The breast rests against the chest wall and immediately underneath the breast is the large pectoralis muscle. The muscle covered with a layer of connective tissues called the fascia,...

Everyday, at least 3,000 people are diagnosed with cancer. The cells divide in the body more rapidly and keep growing when they would normally stop. A large mass of cells may form into a tumor. The cancer cells that have developed may interfere with the work of normal cells in the body. The dia...

Fighting Breast Cancer If a woman were to be diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago, it was most likely that she wouldn't survive. There wasn't much knowledge of the subject then leaving doctors clueless in how to treat the matter. With all of the technology of today, the medical wor...

Breast Cancer In the United States in 1999 alone, an estimated 43,700 people will die from breast cancer. It is the number two cancer killer among females ages 15 to 54. On average if a woman gets this disease, their life expectancy drops drastically. This cancer is within the top thr...

Breast cancer occurs when there is a malignant tumor inside the breast. Each year more than 185,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the incidence of this disease is rising in developed countries. There are approximately 43,500 deaths from breast cancer annually, making this disease secon...

Radiation as Detection and Treatment of Breast Cancer Radiation plays a major role in the detection and treatment of breast cancer through mammograms and radiation therapy. Cancer, or tumors, are malignant growths which do not function like a normal cell. Instead, they grow uncontrollably uncheck...

A lot of people have known someone who has died of cancer. But what is cancer? Cancer is a disease. However, cancer can't be spotted and treated immediately like any other disease. This is because, well, cancer isn't just any other disease. It's a group of diseases that involve abn...

Skin cancer, is the most common form of cancer in the United States. The deadliest form of skin cancer is known as Melanoma. It is a tumor that arises from the pigmented cells called melanocytes. "Melanoma is a cutaneous carcinoma with a high rate of metastasis resulting from uncontrolled gro...

Imagine if you can a time and place where in one split second life as you know it is changed forever. The date is August 6, 1945, and you are living in Hiroshima. Around 8:16 a.m., without a single warning, an A-bomb explodes 580 meters above the city that you are living in and four different ty...

Prostate cancer prevention and treatment "In 2005, over 232,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and over 30,000 men will die from it."("Prostate Cancer Facts.") That's one new case every two and a half minutes and a man dieing every seventeen minutes. That leave...

Cancer: Of Mice and Humans The many genotypically different carcinomas have one commonality: the metastatic process. The stromal microenvironment surrounding neoplastic cells influences their metastasis-related functions (e.g. adhesion, survival, proteolysis, migration, immune escape, and organ t...