Breast cancer What is breast cancer? Cancer is a bad tissue - normal tissue cells that grow alot. Our tissue cells grow and separate into two daugtehr cells. Old cells are killed and thrown away. When cells can't control their growth, they divide in a crazy and quickly way, When that happens a tumor forms. Benign tumors, in fibrocystic Breast Disease, are not cancerous. Cancerous, tumors spread to and damage healthy tissue. Some problems also …
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…All woman older than 20 should make a monthly self-exams. Women older than 40 should have yearly exams with physician and a mammogram everyone 2 years. Women older than 50 should have yearly mammograms. Medications to prevent it. Antioxidants are the best protection against cancer because (1) they destroy cancer causing Tumors (2) they support our immune system, helping it to find and destroy bad cells before they turn into cancer; and (3) they reduce the risk of breast cancer of spreading.