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October is National Breast Cancer awareness month, but what some people want people to be more aware is the little progress have been done to overcome the disease over the past twenty-five years. Since 1990, when the National Breast Cancer awareness month, first launched the reduction of cancer of the breast cancer deaths have disappointing 2% per year. 117 people - mostly women - average died each day in the breast in 1991. Today, this figure rises to 110.

In an article published in the Los Angeles Times, "said h Dr. Gilbert Welch of the Dartmouth Institute for health and clinical practice in the Lebanon policy, NH, that breast cancer is the large number of different diseases." Some tumours - is called "indolent" - is basically harmless, while others develop slowly and may possibly cause problems. Forms the most dangerous of the breast cancer is, however, they are characterized by aggressive tumors that grow rapidly and metastasize before their discovery.

Discover the Enigma

Women have been promoted this year to examine their breasts, and when they reach a certain age - the age recommendations became controversial - having a projection of annual mammography.The problem is, according to Welch, these measures are more likely to find tumors less in danger.

Treatments tend to be the same for all breast cancers, so what happens is that many women whose tumors may never cause problems is being exposed to unnecessary, radiation surgery and chemotherapy.

For each life saved, a mammogram from 5 to 15 life may have changed irreversibly mammography leading to an unjustified treatment suggested Welch in an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine is delivered with a study on mammograms reduce the mortality of role of cancer for cancer of the breast.