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Five Homeopathic Treatments for Breast Cancer

The breast is a gland designed to make milk. The lobules in the breast make the milk, which then drains through the ducts to the nipple.

Like all parts of your body, the cells in your breasts usually grow and then rest in cycles. The periods of growth and rest in each cell are controlled by genes in the cell's nucleus. The nucleus is like the control room of each cell. When your genes are in good working order, they keep cell growth under control. But when your genes develop an abnormality, they sometimes lose their ability to control the cycle of cell growth and rest.

Cancer has the potential to break through normal breast tissue barriers and spread to other parts of the body. While cancer is always caused by a genetic "abnormality" (a "mistake" in the genetic material), only 5-10% of cancers are inherited from your mother or father. Instead, 90% of breast cancers are due to genetic abnormalities that happen as a result of the aging process and life in general.

While there are things every woman can do to help her body stay as healthy as possible (such as eating a balanced diet, not smoking, minimizing stress, and exercising regularly), breast cancer is never anyone's fault. Feeling guilty, or telling yourself that breast cancer happened because of something you or anyone else did, is counterproductive.

Who gets breast cancer?

Breast cancer is the most common cancer to affect women. In 2007, it is estimated that there will be about 178,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer diagnosed in the United States, along with 62,030 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer.

Every woman is at SOME risk for breast cancer-this is merely the "risk" of living as a woman. But there are many risk factors that can make one woman's picture differ substantially from another's. When you understand your own particular risk profile, you are in a better position to manage it and don't have to fear the unknown.

Treatments

There is a range of treatments for breast cancer which include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy.

The health professionals who care for women with breast cancer work in a variety of specialties, general practice, nursing and other health professions. Some of the clinical specialties involved are surgery, radiation oncology, medical oncology, diagnostic radiology, and pathology.

The National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre, which aims to improve outcomes for women with breast cancer, provides a range of detailed information on Treatment options for breast cancer [National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)]

For information on specific types of treatment, follow the links to the specific HealthInsite topic pages below. For information on all other treatments, follow the links in the list of 'resources found' below.

Medicinal treatment:

There is no cure for breast cancer today that can be just taken up as a pill or tablet. Chemotherapy is the closest to medicinal treatment or this disease, as it is administrated by giving drugs to the patient. Chemotherapy works on the concept of stopping chaotic, fast and uncontrolled division of cells which is the typical cancer tumour scenario for growth as healthy cells divide in a predefined order. Chemotherapy today is divided into to five typical regimens or combinations of drugs. This article is a general introduction to chemotherapy, how it works and the five most common treatments available today.

Little tumours are the fastest to grow since the cells receive energy and oxygen from the healthy surroundings of the tumour. These small tumours are also the hardest to find and are typical when cancer becomes invasive and spreads in the body. Chemotherapy is therefore a good method to treat the possibility of unknown spreading of cancer and is thus effective in reducing the chances of cancer reoccurring.

In breast cancer, chemotherapy is usually used before surgery to shrink the size of the tumour and after surgery to clean the body of any unknown tumours. Chemo therapy is administrated in rounds. A round or cycle is the term used for the process of going to the doctor and receiving medication and the healing time required until the next dose is given. Treatment usually entails more than one round. For breast cancer the mean number of rounds is eight. There are many different regimes of chemotherapy and each one is suitable for different people. This article is a short summery of the different chemotherapy available today.

Chemotherapy is commonly given as a combination of drugs and not just one. This is because cancel tumours are heterogeneous and contains more than one type of cell that needs to be attacked. It is like taking a pill for a headache and another for a runny nose when one has a cold. Each combination is also known as a regimen. The type of regimen administrated depends on many factors, among them are: tumour size and its growth rate , how advanced the cancer is and if it is invasive, are lymph nodes involved, the various preferences your doctor has for each situation.

Possible chemotherapy regimens include:

• AC ± T - Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin) with cyclophosphamide (brand name: Cytoxan), with or without Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel) or Taxotere (chemical name: docetaxol)
• CMF - cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil ("5-FU" or 5-fluorouracil)
• CAF - cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin, and fluorouracil ("5-FU" or 5-fluorouracil)
• CEF - cyclophosphamide, Epirubicin (similar to Adriamycin), and fluorouracil ("5-FU" or 5-fluorouracil)
• FAC - fluorouracil ("5-FU" or 5-fluorouracil), Adriamycin, and cyclophosphamide.

In each of these combinations there are drugs effective for attacking several kinds of cells. Also some treatments are more effective for early cancer (TAC or AC±T) and some are more effective in treating existing cancer while others are more effective in reducing reoccurrence chances (CEF). There is research regarding new drugs that can be given as single agents and not within a combination. Chemotherapy is always developing and advancing.

Homeopathic treatment:

1. Your breasts will benefit from good nutrition/diet.

2. Your breasts skin only contains a little collagen.

3. Exercise can assist with the speed of recovery

4. Only use a bra in accordance with the measurement and the shape of your breasts.

5. An aesthetics operation could become your last choice if your breasts become a serious problem for you.

Source: http://www.tips7.net/T63_Great-Tips-To-Treated-Your-Breasts/

• Conventional medicine should always be your first choice. That means you see your GP and are sent to a specialist for testing. Although homeopathic medicine is certainly good for many things even homeopathic doctors that are truthful will NEVER risk the life of their patients. There is no reason that the homeopathic medicine can help to reduce any side effects you may have if you need chemo or radiation, feel nauseated or need to boost your immune system.



• There have been research studies done concerning the use of homeopathic and other alternative treatments of disease, including some cancers, though I'm not sure any are specific to breast cancer. There is a lot of information on the Web about this topic, but of course, one should be careful to check out the reliability of the source, too. Though I would speak with my attending physician, I would also speak with alternative healing practitioners, take all the information I gathered, and make my own decision as to the treatment I believed would be the greatest help to me.

Another resource to find out if alternative treatments might be helpful could be forums where cancer survivors discuss their treatments, or finding cancer survivors in your area and talking to them.

I believe there have also been studies done that support the possibility that homeopathic or other alternative medicines can help reduce the side effects of conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation.

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