It is better to live than to die... Breast cancer. This form of cancer is the second most common after lung cancer, affecting 1 in 9-13 women between the ages of 13 and 90. Since the mammary gland consists of the same cells in both women and men, this type of cancer can also occur in men (1.0% of the total number of patients).
Risk factors: age, genetic predisposition, benign precancerous diseases of the breast, radiation of the chest in the anamnesis, obesity, diabetes, irrational diet and vitamin D deficiency, alcohol abuse, smoking, night work, insufficient physical activity, toxic substances; steroid hormones (including long-term use of hormonal contraceptives), lack of breastfeeding, absence of pregnancy and childbirth at the age of over 30 (for women), etc.
Breast cancer is painless in the initial stages and can be diagnosed only during preventive examinations. One of the methods of breast examination is non-invasive, non-traumatic, without negative consequences, ultrasound examination. If the disease is detected at an early stage, there is a high probability of getting rid of it. We invite you!