Taking Breast Cancer as a reference point to talk about what Cancers are all about including live techniques on how to do breast examination

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I hope you still remember what the month is all about?
For the benefit of doubt, it's still THE BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH.

Normally, you see celebrations just taking a day for instance world kidney day, world hypertension day, Christmas and so on and so forth but for breast cancer, it's a full month for the awareness campaign and there's a reason for that.... Probably because it is the world number one cancer 🤕.

Don't worry, I won't bore you with Medical jargons, hehehe, hence, Let's make the learning easier for all of us using an outline...

What is cancer

Cancer is an abnormal growth mostly malignant that expands locally by invasion and systemically by metastasis (simply means spreading) throughout other body parts.

Features of Cancers

There are some features that makes a growth to be termed a cancerous growth and they includes:

  • Growth Autonomy:

Unlike normal cells that are restricted by the extent of the generation and transmission of growth signals to trigger cell division, cancer cells override this mechanism and keeps on growing without restriction with or without the presence of growth factors.

  • Avoid Cell death/Apoptosis:

In the normal body system, cell growth is equalled cell death and this helps in maintaining cellular homeostasis but coming to cancer cells, they bypass this mechanism and keeps growing without dying.

  • Cell Immortality

Everything dies at a certain point in time as we all know but for cancer cells, they keep on living with no plans of dying.

  • Angiogenesis/ Neovascularization

This basically means forming new blood vessels. When cancer cells start growing, they don't rely on the already existing vessels but rather they form their own vessels as they require enough oxygen and nutrients to grow.

  • Tumor Metastasis

Just like the when other cells and organs grow within their restricted space, cancer cells find it difficult to be contained in one space and will love to spread their wings to other spaces and structures and this is the last hallmark of carcinogenesis.

Staging and Grading of Cancer

Staging of a cancer basically means a criterion used to know the extent the cancer cell have gone.

Grading of cancer is a criterion used to know the extent of differentiation the cancer has undergone.

These two terms basically helps in the management of the patient and help the doctors to speak one language and that's why with just the information above from your doctor in Nigeria to your doctor in USA, he can start treatment from where your previous doctor stopped without having to undergo the stress of starting afresh to get a diagnosis, hence, saving you cost too.

Now let's talk about Breast Cancer proper.

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BREAST CANCER

Breast cancer is an abnormal growth meeting the outlined features listed above happening in the breast.
Breast cancer happens more in females but occurs in males too.

Epidemiology:

This is the most commonest cancer not only in Nigeria but in the whole world at large.

Risk Factors

These are factors that when present, predisposes the bearer to having breast cancer.
They includes;

Female gender
Genetic mutations especially BRCA1 AND BRCA2
Increasing age
Obesity
Family history of breast cancer
History of radiation exposure
Hormone replacement therapy
Smoking

It is important to note that incidence of breast Cancer has occured even in patients who have no risk factors.

Clinical Presentation.

These are signs and symptoms that can be elicited or you can see when someone presents with breast cancer.
They includes:

  • A painless breast lump

  • Change in morphology of the breast (size and shape)

  • Nipple discharge that may or may not contain blood.

It is important to note that not all lumps seen on the breast are cancerous as some of them might be benign and is treated by surgical excision of the lump.

Prevention

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  • Regular breast examination which will help you detect abnormalities for early presentation at the hospital.

  • Cervical cancer screening and cervical pap smear to avoid secondary cancer originating from other sources.

  • Regular exercise to maintain a healthy weight

  • Breastfeeding your baby helps also.

Treatment

Unlike the notion people have about cancers not been curable, it's a lie aS Cancers can be cured permanently but then one of the greatest challenges especially in developing countries like ours is late presentation.

Most patients don't present to the hospital until the cancers has gotten to stages 3 and 4 and has possibly metastasized to other body parts making it very difficult to treat, hence, leading to giving the patient palliative care.

The two mainstay of treatment are;

  • Mastectomy surgery to remove the breast tumour.

  • Chemotherapy

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Breast cancers are very common in the world especially among females, sometimes there are no triggers to their occurrence but then you should just try as much as possible to prevent the risk factors you can.

COME AND LEARN THE PROPER TECHNIQUE OF DOING BREAST EXAMINATION

What makes it more interesting is that we have a webinar tomorrow... Yes, tomorrow been October 14, 2023 where breast examination will be thought properly by a doctor.

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Here is the zoom link,

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wIOipn3bQkuvr5eN35W2Ng

you can register and clear your schedule so you come and learn adequate ways of breast examination...

Remember: Early presentation to clinic saves us all

Together, you and I will beat breast cancer

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This post was prompted by HiveGhana Community but I was writing exams then and couldn't meet their deadline and also by the recent campaign an Association, FAMSA ( Federation of African Medical Students Association) I am a member in did few days ago and still doing till the month ends... It's breast cancer month anyways, hehehe.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day.

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Ciao @sperosamuel15 , thank you for this article; it stimulated a strong feeling about what is wrong in conventional 'health' approaches: it is a very mainstream indoctrinational post, which misses multiple vital points about breast cancer.

  • Most importantly, women in mainstream are often profoundly disassociated from their breasts, and do not touch them or massage them daily, as they should. The de-sanctifying of the body in general, but breasts and pelvis in particular, is directly related to the suppression of our inherently Divine Creative Nature as Womb-Ones: the breasts are supposed to radiate great light and love, as direct beacons of heart and connectedness. This relationship can be revived through breathing, visualisation and working holistically with the bodymindspirit.

  • A deconstructed view of the breast as an 'object' and as separate from heart, from breathing, from love and from our relationship-with-all-things is the problem, as it our giving of authority of Divine Healing Capacity to an external body. The medical model uses the same separation of mind and body that the porn industry uses, and this is highly destructive to the whole fabric of individual and collective women identity.

  • The wearing of bras is a major obstruction to the lymphatic system and the sacred breast's capacity to keep circulation and energy flowing about the breast and body, and this prevalent habit has been proved to be a direct link to cancer. Especially ill-fitting bras, or wearing a bra for more than a couple of hours, can be extremely detrimental to breast health, and have accumulative long-term consequences.

The best thing we can do for women to empower them to heal their breasts, is encourage them to take this power into their own hands, literally. Whatever unique relationship we have with our breasts, if it is not one of Divine Love, Pleasure, and Good Feeling as part of a healthy Whole, we must work towards it being so.

  • Massaging our own breasts, and tuning in to precisely what comes up mentally or emotionally, physically and in our imaginal realm, will help us concentrate where there is more Love needing to be poured in. Any and every negative thought or painful sensation can be transformed through, again, breathing, visualisation and intention.

  • Until all of us are standing up straight and strong and beaming beautiful waves of love and health from our breasts, we should be encouraging each other at all and every opportunity to recognise where we are not potentialising the good health of our feminine body.

  • There are myriad non-mainstream science fields which have a holistic approach and which provide intensive transformative healing modalities with extremely high success rates (where implemented properly and efficiently): Gerson Therapy in particular is a very straightforward and methodical approach, which works from the core to clear the elimenatory organs and thus to stir iup and then flush out all toxic debris in our cells: the full therapy is a lot to take in, but there are various levels of the juicing and enema programme which can be adapted to any stage of cancer, and bring the body back to FULL HEALTH.

Do the research, if you want to know accessible and available cures for cancer, rather than perpetuating the fiction that fear of our body and relinqueshing our sacred container up to the knife and to saturation with chemicals is the only option.

I am freely available to advise any women on this subject; we should not be profiting from women's disease, but inspiring women to love their bodies.

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Thanks a lot for taking time to read and also for your wonderful response...
Here is my reply

  1. Most importantly, women in mainstream are often profoundly disassociated from their breasts

By this, I take it to mean you were referring to mastectomy? But I'm also confused if you were referring to the physical examination of the breast, however I will respond to mastectomy.....

Now here is the point, scientifically, for a breast cancer that has metastasized to other body parts, regardless of whatever treatment you want to give the person when you haven't done mastectomy, it's just running around the circle... This is me talking from a scientific approach, nothing related to spirituality.

For your second and third points, they are in no way relating to my post so I won't say anything about them
Obviously, probably you did your own research which is nice but I'm just hearing those points for the first time as linker to cancer.

which can be adapted to any stage of cancer,

I stand to defer!!!
A breast cancer at stage 1 and 2, no problems, there could be alternatives to the treatment and that was the early presentation to the hospital I was talking about but for any cancer that has already metastasized, you must do mastectomy

we should not be profiting from women's disease, but inspiring women to love their bodies

Who is profiting and who isn't inspiring women to love their bodies?

I think proper awareness is also a sign of love, don't you think so?

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The cutting off of a breast is a gross and evil torture of a woman: you are negating the High and Natural Truth that I am presenting here, @sperosamuel15 and as such there is little point in my pushing the issue, but you are grossly and horribly MISTAKEN COMPLETELY that there is EVER any need to cut a 'dis-eased' part of a body off, when it can and will be cured naturally through myriad modalities.

Your refusal to consider this, when the Truth is being presented, is an enormous disservice to women, to women's bodies and to the sacred feminine. The profiting from the dis-ease of woman is wholly and unequivocally EVIL: it is the opposite of life and of health.

No, I was not talking about the medieval torture of mastectomy, when I was talking about the disassociation of women from their breasts, nor of conventional 'breast examination' as directed by some outside person to a woman: I was speaking to women's literal disembodiment from being fully present in their breasts as part of a WHOLE, ACTIVATED AND LIVING BODY (I.E. NON COMPARTMENTALISED AND LABELLED): when a woman is fully present in the sacred quality of her living body, in her sovereignty as a self-healing vessel of spirit, her breasts will radiate Love and Power, Vitality and Good Feeling.

This is how breasts are not diseased in the first place, but also how we return to health in our bodies; by fully OCCUPYING our WHOLE BODIES, IN LOVE. NOT by paying a death-cult agency and 'authority' of 'doctor' to indoctrinate us into believing that our bodies are innately disfunctional - and that we have to chop pieces off ourselves and riddle ourselves with pain and suffering, chemicals and toxins, and even more fear and detachment.

I absolutely comprehend your indoctrination through your studies, but you are being guided to profit from dis-ease, and as such are being rigidly trained to not look at health and truth, and this is not healing people. You will be coming up against much more energy and Truth like I am sharing here, when you go out into the world after your studies: the conventional medical system is crumbling to the ground; it's very core is rotten and based on completely outdated and FALSE SCIENCE. The true science is being suppressed, but is rising up worldwide regardless.

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Taking care of one's breast and body is very important.I hope this article brings awareness to the issue of breast health.

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This is so informative, thanks for educating us👍

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This is a very lucid explanation. The example of lemon is very unique. I never saw it before. Well done sperosamuel.

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