Common myths about breast cancer

The article is professionally consulted by Specialist Doctor I Le Thien Quang - Internal Oncologist - Department of Medical Examination & Internal Medicine - Vinmec Danang International General Hospital.

Breast cancer is currently the leading cause of cancer death among women. Breast cancer patients are often detected late, leading to inadequate treatment. The reason for this is in no small part due to misconceptions about cancer that many people are suffering from.

According to statistics, only 39.6% of people with breast cancer are detected early, the rest are detected and treated when it is at a late stage. The fact that the majority of cases are not detected early indicates that many of us are making the following common breast cancer mistakes:

In fact, only 5-10% of breast cancers are caused by errors in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, and even those with a family history can still develop the disease without the gene mutation. Or to be more precise, breast cancer risk can be attributed to both lifestyle and genetics.

Breast size does not determine how easy or difficult a woman is to get breast cancer. Breast cancer develops in cells in the ducts or lobules that are the same in number and properties in all women, regardless of breast size. Breast size is determined by the amount of fat and fibrous tissue, which has little effect on the risk of breast cancer.

In fact, up to 10% of people diagnosed with breast cancer do not have lumps, patients feel chest pain but do not see any abnormalities such as lumps in their breasts.

Age does not determine the time of breast cancer, the number of women with breast cancer under 35-40 years old is increasing due to unhealthy lifestyle or family history and subjective lack of screening. of the patient.

Most breast cancer patients do not know how to do breast self-examination or do not have the habit of self-examination to detect abnormalities as early as possible.

100% of early breast cancer cases have no symptoms. Pain often occurs when the cancer has entered a late stage when the tumor begins to invade, metastasize and cause sores... Do not be subjective when you begin to feel chest pain before going to the breast cancer examination. too late.

Male breast cancer is rare but does not mean that it is completely free. Currently, the rate of men with breast cancer is on the rise, so it is not possible to be subjective but to take early prevention measures.

The general psychology of Vietnamese people is often afraid to go to the doctor, hide the disease because they are not aware of the danger of the disease; afraid to examine sensitive breasts, afraid that if disease occurs, it will be expensive to treat, .... Therefore, many cases are detected, the disease has changed seriously and the treatment has not had high results, leading to the occurrence of the disease. unfortunate consequences.

Breast cancer cannot be cured with male medicine. The state of arbitrarily applying medicine to the chest for treatment can cause serious consequences such as sores, infection... When returning to Western medicine treatment, it is too late and the treatment effectiveness is not high.

Many breast cancer patients are afraid of going under the knife, afraid of chemotherapy, chemotherapy and radiation that refuse to be treated. This is a very wrong thing, when surgery or chemotherapy is indicated, the chance of saving the disease is still very great, limiting the growth of breast tumors, prolonging the survival time and even possibly reducing the risk of cancer. The disease is completely cured when treated at an early stage. Therefore, patients need to adhere to, listen to the treatment instructions given by the doctor to get the best results.

Breast cancer is completely curable if it is detected early in the early stages of the disease. With today's modern medical methods and techniques, the disease can be detected when the smallest abnormalities in the breast appear such as mammograms, mammograms, mammograms, and biopsies. screening tests when detecting abnormalities... However, at present, only a very small part of women are aware of early breast cancer screening, the rest are mostly subjective, disregarding this, causing The incidence of breast cancer continues to increase.
Currently, Vinmec International General Hospital is implementing a package of screening and early detection of breast - gynecological cancer performed by a team of highly qualified and experienced doctors with modern technical equipment. Modern technology, will help detect accurately and early signs of breast cancer in patients even when there are no symptoms.