Breast Cancer Research

Cancer Research, Breast Cancer   Anita Robertson   Kaplan University   CM 225-11AU   Introduction   It is essential to educate women and men about breast cancer. Cancer of the breast occurs in women of all races and appears to have happened throughout history. It is slowly increasing in frequency all over the western world. In Britain about 24,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and 15,000 deaths are certified as due to the disease. This suggests that about a third of all cases die of some other cause, with no evidence of further cancer in their bodies. These women could reasonably be claimed to have been cured of their breast cancer. To put it another way, 1 woman in 14 will contract breast cancer during her lifetime and 1 in 21 will die of it (Cancer Research Campaign 1988). In the United States in (1995) alone 43,063 died from breast cancer. “Breast Cancer is the number two cancer killer and the number one cancer females ages 15 to 54.” Breast cancer usually occurs in women between the ages of thirty-five to sixty-five, even though fifty percent of all breast cancer is of women sixty-five and older. On an average if a woman gets this disease, their life span expectancy drops nineteen and a half years. These types of cancer are amongst the top three cancers of every woman over the age 15, and consist of 6 percent of all health care expenses in the U.S. totaling an amazing 35 billion dollars a year. The average of a woman getting the cancer is one in every thirty chance of getting the cancer, but if that person has a family history of breast cancer then their chances change to one in six chances. The percentage of African American women surviving from the disease is sixty-nine percent, it is estimated there is nearly two million new cases reported last year (2008) in the United States with the breast cancer disease.   Breast cancer is clusters of quickly reproducing distinguish cells in the area of the breast in women. The cancer occurs when cells separate wildly;...