Breast cancer is a disease caused by a defect in the chest cells itself, not by an external order, and can be benign or malignant. This is detected through appropriate medical examination, and within the global scale of breast cancer cases, complete treatment is possible in the case of early detection and treatment of cancer cells from the beginning, and the rate of recovery in this case to 97%.
Stages of breast cancer
- Zero phase: The disease is limited and limited in the chest area, and is small and can be treated quickly and accurately.
- Phase I: is an early stage in which the disease begins to spread within adjacent tissues but not thereafter.
- Stage II: is an early stage, as well as spread disease in neighboring tissues, and may reach the lymph nodes.
- Third stage: Known in the world of medicine under the name of advanced cancer localized, and here the cancer cells have reached the lymph nodes, and spread in other tissues nearby, and the size of that decade greater or greater presence.
- Stage IV: A dangerous stage in which cancer has overtaken the cells and lymph nodes, and began to invade the distant body areas such as bones, brain, lungs, and liver.
Stages of breast cancer treatment
The stages of treatment begin with the identification of the stage at which the cancer occurred. This determination is important to determine whether the disease is still limited in the breast area or has spread outside. The body’s immune systems have not been able to resist it. The patient is then subjected to a clinical examination that concerns more than one area of the body. The most important of these is the detection of the presence of lymph nodes in the area under the armpit, the detection of these glands in the clavicle area, and the detection of the effects of this disease on the skin, liver and bones, Liver function, of course, white and red blood cells, hemoglobin in the blood, and chest radiographs.
All of the above should be examined during the detection of the size of the tumor, whether large or small, and the extent of adhesion to the skin of the breast, and the size of large tumor attached to the skin is more dangerous than the small type limited within the breast area, for the difficulty of removing it smoothly, Relative to the stages of the disease.
The most important stage is the results of lymph node tests outside the breast area; if these glands contain cancerous cells, this means that the disease has begun to spread outside the borders of the breast area, making it difficult to treat by eradication and completely eliminate the problem, but that does not mean that the attempt to cure Have failed; they are only becoming more difficult.