Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer
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Learning you have breast cancer must be terrifying. Fear of losing your body image, your lifestyle, and even your life is only natural -- but fear itself is your worst enemy.
Denying the problem won't make it go away, nor will postponing important treatment decisions. Fear of the unknown just keeps you in the dark about what to expect -- when what you need is to be enlightened about all the recent advances.
Fear prevents your body from doing what it was designed so beautifully to do -- to fight cancer. Every day, every one of us successfully fights off cancer cells without even realizing it. But fear or depression can cripple your immune system and prevent it from destroying the cancer cells, and from recovering from surgery or radiation free of infection or other complications.
Thanks to new treatments, you need not be afraid. While you may associate breast cancer surgery with radical mastectomy, this disfiguring operation is now rarely done. Most women with early breast cancer can have a lumpectomy, removing only the tumor, followed by radiation and other treatment.
