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Stage 0 breast cancers may often be called pre-cancers or pre-invasive cancers, which are a collection of abnormal cells in the breast that have some characteristics of cancer but haven’t yet spread to other tissues or organs.
While virtually every organ in the body is susceptible to cancer, the disease rarely affects the heart directly.
It’s important to understand what colon polyps are, what symptoms they cause, how doctors treat them and when you should be concerned about them.
The cancer death rate in the U.S. has declined 33 percent since 1991, thanks largely to new treatments, gains in early cancer detection and, most significantly, a sharp decline in tobacco use.
While it may seem easy to categorize benign tumors as harmless and malignant tumors as harmful, the distinctions are often more of a gray area. Yet the importance of differentiating the two is critical.
Lung cancer may often misdiagnosed as other conditions is because it shares many common symptoms with those conditions, including coughing, fatigue and shortness of breath.
Despite outward appearances, the structure of men’s and women’s breasts are very similar. The statistical differences between male and female breast cancer, however, are far more dramatic.
It’s a good idea to report any suspicious lumps or breast changes to your physician right away, because some may be signs of breast cancer. Doing so may help catch cancer in its earlier stages, when it’s easier to treat.
Journalist and former Today host Katie Couric has gone public with her breast cancer diagnosis, in part to encourage people to get screened.
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