Lady friend struggle with breast cancer

Recently I learned that a childhood lady friend is struggling with breast cancer, as per my tradition, I made an effort to go see her. Found her seated in a hospital room filled with light and comfortable couches, a way of her masking the daily grapples she’s been waging against the disease. Hearing she has breast cancer was a devastating blow and like a lot of women has struggled with her diagnosis and the uncertainty it brings. As we spoke, her cheerful demeanor belies an 3-year grapple with the disease that started in 2015 when doctors found a 12 centimetre mass in her right breast.Breast cancer occurs predominantly in females, although in rare instances men can also develop the disease. According to her, breast cancer is a tumour that originates in the cells of the breast and develops when cells grow abnormally and multiply as it has happened to her. These abnormal cells developed into cancerous growths that can, in her case, it has not spread to other areas of her body. Luckily, her breast cancer is contained within the breast making it treatable and her survival rate is encouraging. Its clear breast cancer has become biggest threat for women as it occupies a fairly high position as a fatal disease for that gender and incidents keep rising as people in younger age groups are affected. At the age of 29, she narrated to your blogger how there were minimal symptoms at the initial stage which allowed the disease to be discovered only when it was entering its advanced phase."I had to put my best foot forward and move on with it and whatever the doctors advised me to do, I was prepared to do that," she said.There was no sensation of pain at the early stage of my cancer, said the lady.Eventually a lump growing at the first stage of breast cancer was only detected by self-examination and reconfirmed through mammography.

Unhealthy lifestyle and food consumption also tends to increase the risk of contracting breast cancer, with younger patients being listed and in the hospital where she is getting treatment, a doctor told your blogger that breast cancer cases have now become common among people at the age of 20s and 30s, although the majority of patients are about 40 plus. Having a healthy diet and getting plenty of exercise is important. At my friend’s young age, however, it will allow a longer time for treatment, as well as control and care.On the other hand, patients treated in the advanced phase need several medications, which are expensive and most cases cancer victims always bring economic burden to their families. In well documented cases, patients die as they can’t afford to pay medical costs while others face financial trouble after being diagnosed.The doctor explained that the financial challenges situation has prompted studies on alternative treatments for breast cancer at reasonable costs and also with milder side effects. So far, my friend treatment is chemotherapy, which apart from its fairly high cost, has side effects some patients cannot stand."I used to go to bed for about three days after a chemotherapy session because I wasn't much good to anybody," she added. "I tended to have severe mouth ulcers and I struggled with those for every treatment."Altogether, my childhood friend has lost her hair thrice and nowadays just shave it off but hair will grow back again when the treatment is finished," she said. She however believes that medical treatment is not enough and adopting a healthy life style is a must for breast cancer victims to increase their life expectancy.Overall, she hopes that continued discovery of medicines and therapy can improve life expectancy to lift the spirits of other cancer patients out there. Spirit is one of the keys for her recovery and is hopeful that she’ll be able to write this year's Christmas cards and when she get those cards out to write, she’s going to be very grateful she has had another year.