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Breast cancer is the type of cancer that has a valid preventive strategy if we're talking about active prevention. There are about 1.38 million new cases and 458 000 deaths from breast cancer each year. Early diagnosis is a cornerstone for breast cancer care.

Many people who have cancer are rather interested in trying anything that can cure them out of this in one piece including complementary and alternative cancer therapies. Alternative cancer treatments can offer some feeling of control over cancer but many alternative cancer treatments are unproven and can be even dangerous. Alternative treatments may not play a direct role in curing cancer but they can help the patients cope up with signs and symptoms such as anxiety, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting and pain difficulty in sleeping and stress may be lessened by alternative cancer treatments.

This is one of the common struggles of being a cancer patient - inability to openly speak about ones illness and the fear, anxiety and depression that often accompany it. It was Padma's personal choice to come to see me for cancer counseling, without the knowledge of her family.

Diagnosing Cancer at its earliest stages usually provides the most effective probability for a cure. The days - or even weeks - spent waiting for the results of a cancer-screening test can feel like perpetuity. Especially when the early diagnosis and treatment are tied to better outcomes. Now, a new technique to analyze proteins implemented on cancer cells shows promise in rapidly detecting these cell types.

248 Million. This is the annual cost of chemotherapy for breast cancer (UK). It includes £1,000 per patient as 'out-of-pocket' personal costs.