‘Self-examination can help prevent breast cancer’

KARACHI:

Breast cancer develops when abnormal changes in the breast affect the growth of breast cells. Uncontrollable cancer cells often invade healthy breast tissue and spread to other parts of the breast, which helps cancer cells to spread through primary channels to many parts of the breast.

Pink Pakistan Trust President Dr Zubaidah Qazi expressed these views in a “Breast Cancer Awareness” seminar which was held in collaboration with Iqra University North Campus. She added that uncontrolled cancer cells often invade healthy breast tissues and spread to other parts of the breast, which enables cancer cells to spread in many parts of the breast through primary channels.

Symptoms of breast cancer include redness on the entire breast, a lump in the breast, swelling in some parts of the breast, bleeding from the breast, a lump under the arm, peeling skin of the breast, and changes in shape and size of the breast.

She said that ductal carcinoma starts in the milk duct and lobular carcinoma is lobules and then grows. A breast cancer diagnosis can be helped by a mammogram, ultrasound, or biopsy test to avoid this. Apart from this, abnormal changes in the body can be diagnosed promptly by examining them at home.