How Do You Get Breast Cancer

Breast cancer causes

I’m a firm believer that all forms of cancer are due to such things as chronic stress, a poor lifestyle, toxins, and more. The medical community loves to put labels on things so if you get cancer in a certain place that’s the label it gets: fallopian tube cancer, testicular cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, etc. Cancer is cancer, a mutation of healthy cells. A warning from your mind and body letting you know that something isn’t right and you need to take care of it right away.

After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer women get and it’s the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer.

Breast Cancer Rate

Statistics show that each year there will be about –

• 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women
• 54,010 new cases of carcinoma in situ will be found (this is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer)
• 39,840 females will die from breast cancer

Signs of Breast Cancer

Many times there are actually no signs of breast cancer, especially in its earliest form. When there are symptoms you may find an area of your breast that feels thicker, a dimple in your breast, swelling, redness, nipple discharge, enlarged lymph node under your arm, and/or a lump.

Breast Cancer Lump 

This is the sign women fear most, yet don't know who a tumor would feel. Push the tip of your tongue against the side of your cheek then feel it with your hand. See how hard that is?  This is usually how a tumor feels. Softer lumps are normally fatty tissue, especially in women with larger breasts.

Don’t be alarmed if you have one or more of these symptoms since most breast lumps turn out to be non-cancerous (benign.)

How Do You Get Breast Cancer

Some of the most common ways women are more susceptible to breast cancer include

• Not having children or having them later in life
• Using birth control pills (the risk returns to normal once you stop taking them)
• Using HRT (hormone replacement therapy) after menopause
• Alcohol use (that is, having 2-5 drinks per day)
• Obesity
• Being sedentary
• Breast implants (newer studies are showing that there could be a connection)
• Environmental toxins (this may increase all forms of cancer)
• Being 55 or older
• Being female
• Family history
• Being Caucasian (white women get breast cancer more often than other races)
• Having non-cancerous tumors
• Early start of menstruation (before the age of 12)
• Breast radiation (especially before the age of 40)
• DES treatment (a drug that was used to help prevent miscarriage)

 Breast Cancer Cure

Anyone visiting this blog will know that I don’t agree with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. I feel it makes the problem worse not better. I believe there are hundreds of natural ways to overcome cancer. Before you resort to typical cancer therapies PLEASE get education, get informed, and make your own decisions based on what you feel is best for yourself. Never allow someone to force you into a treatment that you don’t agree with.

Breast cancer virtually "eradicated" with higher levels of vitamin D

In a gathering of vitamin D researchers recently held in Toronto, Dr. Cedric Garland delivered a blockbuster announcement: Breast cancer can be virtually "eradicated" by raising vitamin D levels.

Vitamin D is "the cure" for breast cancer that the cancer industry ridiculously claims to be searching for. The cure already exists! But the breast cancer industry simply refuses to acknowledge any "cure" that doesn't involve mammography, chemotherapy or high-profit pharmaceuticals.

Vitamin D is finally gaining some of the recognition it deserves as a miraculous anti-cancer nutrient. It is the solution for cancer prevention. It could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year in the U.S. alone. Even Dr. Andrew Weil recently raised his recommendation of vitamin D to 2,000 IU per day.

This is the vitamin that could destroy the cancer industry and save millions of women from the degrading, harmful cancer "treatments" pushed by conventional medicine. No wonder they don't want to talk about it! The cancer industry would prefer to keep women ignorant about this vitamin that could save their breasts and their lives.

Below I'm reprinting the full statement from Dr. Cedric Garland following the Vitamin D conference recently held in Toronto.

Statement from Dr. Cedric Garland

Breast cancer is a disease so directly related to vitamin D deficiency that a woman's risk of contracting the disease can be 'virtually eradicated' by elevating her vitamin D status to what vitamin D scientists consider to be natural blood levels.

That's the message vitamin D pioneer Dr. Cedric Garland delivered in Toronto Tuesday as part of the University of Toronto School of Medicine's "Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency" conference - the largest gathering of vitamin D researchers in North America this year. More than 170 researchers, public health officials and health practitioners gathered at the UT Faculty club for the landmark event.

Garland's presentation headlined a conference that reviewed many aspects of the emerging vitamin D research field - a booming discipline that has seen more than 3,000 academic papers this calendar year alone, conference organizers said. That makes vitamin D by far the most prolific topic in medicine this year, with work connecting it with risk reduction in two dozen forms of cancer, heart disease, multiple scleroses and many other disorders.

Dr. Reinhold Vieth, Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at University of Toronto, and Director of the Bone and Mineral Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital, organized the event in conjunction with Grassroots Health - an international vitamin D advocacy group founded by breast cancer survivor Carole Baggerly.

Baggerly implored the research group to take action and encourage Canadians to learn more about vitamin D and to raise their vitamin D levels.

An estimated 22,700 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009, according to the Canadian Cancer Society's latest figures.

As much as 97 percent of Canadians are vitamin D deficient at some point in the year, according to University of Calgary research - largely due to Canada's northerly latitudes and weak sun exposure. Sunshine is by far the most abundant source of vitamin D - called 'The Sunshine Vitamin' - with salmon and fortified milk being other sources. Vitamin D supplementation helps raise levels for many as well.

Grassroots Health's "D-action" panel - 30 of the world's leading researchers on vitamin D and many other vitamin D supporters - recommend 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily and vitamin D blood levels of 100-150 nanomoles-per-liter as measured by a vitamin D blood test.

Vieth pointed out that natural vitamin D levels of mammals who live outdoors in sunny climates is higher than that - up to 200 nanomoles-per liter. And Garland, whose presentation was entitled "Breast Cancer as a Vitamin D Deficiency Disease" presented data showing that raising one's vitamin D status near those levels decreased breast cancer risk more than 77 percent.

'The Sunshine Vitamin' was once thought of only for bone health, helping the body process calcium. But more recent work has shown that all cells in the body have "vitamin D receptors" which help control normal cell growth. Additionally, Garland presented new evidence that low vitamin D status compromises the integrity of calcium-based cellular bonding within tissues, which when eroded allow rogue cancer cells to spread more readily.

Grassroots Health is trying to raise vitamin D awareness among Canadians. Despite epidemic-level vitamin D deficiency in Canada, fewer than nine per cent of Canadians have ever had their vitamin D levels checked by a professional and most who have do not know their vitamin D blood level.

Sources for this story include:
http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNew...
http://sciencestage.com/v/1753/canc...