Cancer Treatment, Stages & Survival Rates of Breast Cancer.
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The overall average of five-year survival rate for women who contract breast cancer is around 86% for those whose disease has not metastasized. That means, 86% of the women who contract it survive for at least five years. But even that fairly high number is just an overall average. The numbers are even better for some categories. Those numbers depend on the stage at which the cancer is detected and treated.
Breast cancer, like others, develops in stages. Those stages are lettered and numbered according a now-standard classification of T, N and M and a scale from 0-IV. T indicates tumor size, N spread to lymph nodes and M distant metastasis. Metastasis is spreading of a primary tumor to secondary areas forming tumors of the same type.
TX tumors are those that can not yet be assessed at all. T0 designates a situation in which there's no evidence of the cancer at all. Tis indicates one that may be of type DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), LCIS (lobular carcinoma in situ) or Paget's disease (a rare form in which the nipple and/or areola is cancerous).
Cancers in Stage 0 are in the earliest possible stage. In cancers that are Stage I, the tumors are fewer than 2cm in size and have yet to spread. Stage II cancer means that a tumor has grown to 2-5cm in diameter, and Stage III tumors are larger than 5cm. If an individual has a tumor that is stage IV then it is attached to the chest wall, and has typically spread to the individual's lymph nodes.
Because of the many technological advances for both diagnosis and treatment techniques people are better able to detect their cancer and eliminate it during its earliest stages.
For both women and men who are capable of obtaining treatment during Stage 0 or Stage I of their cancer there is a five year survival rate of about 100%. Men too can contract breast cancer, but their rates of contraction are far fewer than that of women. Individuals who have Stage II cancers the survival rate is between 81% and 92%. Your rate of survival will not start to dip until you get to Stage III, it is during Stage III that the survival rate is about 67%, and at Stage IV the rate is about 20%.
Beating the cancer odds is always possible. Even people who are in the later cancer stages are capable of surviving for longer periods of time than they might have expected, sometimes even more than seven years. Due to the technological advances that have occurred in both diagnostic and treatment methods the odds for individuals are improving significantly.
A new diagnostic technique is the QM-MSP (quantitative multiplex metylation-specific PCR). This technique was discovered in 2001, and it is a chemical test that utilizes the fluid from an individual's breast. It then analyzes the chemicals attached to specific genes. Cancer clumps that are as small as 50 cells can be detected with an 86% rate of reliability. These new methods make cancer detection extremely possible, improving the chances of treatments that are successful.
Treatments are also becoming better. Now available are hormone therapy, drugs that are molecule specific, and targeted radiation. These incredible methods are capable of saving the lives of tons of individuals.
Though never pleasant, and still a serious condition, breast cancer no longer has to be life threatening or even permanently scarring.
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