Each breast cancer is different, both molecular and emotional, some will be more invasive and others less invasive. However, on this difficult and arduous journey, the least important thing is to be hairless or scarless from an absent breast, where immense love still lives, it is best to be alive and live up to the challenge, knowing that together you can.
Science, as we well know, surprises us every day with promising new developments in the field of cancer medicine. Treatments are becoming more accurate, as is the case with immunotherapy, in which?Our body by an antibody that guides the immune system to fight malignant cells without damaging healthy tissues.
- Medicine becomes more refined and less invasive.
- But breast cancer diagnoses occur daily.
- The truth is that today.
- According to data from the Global Fund for Cancer Research.
- It remains the most common among women.
- While mortality rates are declining each year.
- It is inevitable to realize the social and emotional impact this disease continues to have.
Each of these women has a name and a name, a history of their own and a cancer with a particular biological profile, yet they are all united by fear and inevitable anguish, all these exceptional women are forced to start a difficult private life and extreme journey, for which no one, absolutely no one, is prepared.
But yes, the vast majority of them overcome all this through a transformative journey, to become our best inspiration, a reflection of the most real hope of showing us that, in fact, together we can do anything.
The vice president of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) states that breast cancer remains the most diagnosed today, but it should be noted that in some countries lung cancer is already among the highest types of female mortality. its serious effects certainly benefit this sector of the population, and that is something that deserves our attention.
However, even though the survival rate of breast cancer already shows more encouraging figures, the question of why I still remain. The University of Western Australia conducted a study in 2014 that discussed the attributions women used to make about the disease, and showed that much of it was related to genetic history and lifestyle.
However, clinical studies explain that only 5-10% of breast cancers are linked to an inherited genetic mutation, that linked to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, it is clear that there are certain factors that increase the risk of developing this disease, but we have to assume that (at least until now) it is not yet possible to prevent it 100%.
The most important thing is that the most necessary strategy is to be able to detect it at an early stage by mammograms.
One of the most important steps in the field of oncology has been to discover and understand the heterogeneity of breast cancer, each subtype requires specific and differentiated treatment, so there will be women with more or less invasive interventions, with more or less cycles of chemotherapy and radiation therapy and, subsequently, with a certain number of years after treatment with tamoxifen or other complementary medication.
In addition to the medical history, there is a personal history, there are very young women who are interrupted from life overnight, there are others who are diagnosed during pregnancy, many refuse to take a break from their professional life and continue to go around the world with their scarves, scars and visits to the chemotherapy room.
Some of these women would also like to be brave warriors and fighters, but they can’t. Metastatic or recurrent breast cancer doesn’t always make room for victory. There will be moments of remission and moments of sudden advancement, but the stage IV diagnosis is so bleak, their stories are others, more delicate, even more admirable.
Breast cancer has multiple scars that are not seen or appreciated, we are not talking about the wound that sometimes delimits the space of an empty breast, first we talk about the marks that every woman who survives cancer wears in silence.
Therefore, it is necessary to understand that when a woman overcomes breast cancer, her path continues, that transformative journey takes place every day, overcoming all fears, facing the consequences, taking care of herself, caring for others and even supporting more women in the same situation.
Together we can. Breast cancer changes life, but it doesn’t prevent it, because when we have a lot to live for, even scars help us be stronger.