Sierra Nevada Cancer Center Talks Breast Cancer: Care, Prevention, Risk Factors

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Sierra Nevada Cancer Center Talks Breast Cancer
Care, Prevention, Risk Factors
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• Thanks to remarkable improvements in cancer
  detection, care and research, millions of women
  are surviving breast cancer today.
• Our last post talked about treatment options and
  detection methods. This time, were talking about
  the role of personal care when diagnosed with
  breast cancer, as well as preventive measures and
  risk factors.

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Personal Care

• The idea of undergoing any cancer treatment can
  be difficult, which is why Dr. Jorge Perez and
  his team strive to offer immediate Advanced
  Cancer Care to patients and their families.
• I work personally with patients and their
  families and collaborate closely on disease
  management, said Dr. Perez. I want all of my
  patients to beat their cancer, and I will do
  everything that I can to help them restore their
  health.
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• The team prides itself on its personal approach,
  and SNCC patients become part of our extended
  family of cancer warriors and survivors.

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• We are here to help, said Dr. Perez. While you
  are in our care, we want you to feel like you
  have a friend and a resource that can help
  connect you with information, support, ideas or
  just an ear to listen.
• And the best feedback we can hear is that our
  patients felt supported throughout the process.
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• "I feel very blessed that the Sierra Nevada
  Cancer Center has been helping me fight my
  spreading breast cancer, said SNCC patient and
  South Lake Tahoe resident Kathy B. Dr. Perez and
  his staff are very supportive, inspirational,
  professional and secure. An illness like mine
  makes life difficult every day, but being able to
  communicate and stay focused on my medications
  helps me stay strong and encouraged to continue
  with all my treatments. Thank you with all my
  heart and soul."

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Preventive Measures

• Treatment and early detection is what has given
  the millions of breast cancer survivors their
  best chance at beating cancer.
• To reduce your risk of breast cancer
• Increase your level of physical activity
• Maintain a healthy weight and diet
• Decrease the consumption of alcohol
• Talk with your doctor about ways to avoid
  Combined Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

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Risk Factors

• Many factors contribute to the risk of developing
  breast cancer gender, age, family history and
  race among them.
• Breast cancer occurs nearly 100 times more often
  in women than in men. Men can also be diagnosed
  with breast cancer, but they have a far greater
  risk developing Prostate Cancer.
• Two out of three women with invasive cancer are
  diagnosed after age 55.
• If your mother, sister, father or child has been
  diagnosed with breast cancer, the risk of you
  developing breast cancer increases, especially if
  your relative was diagnosed before the age of 50.
  
• It is unknown as to why, but breast cancer is
  more common in Caucasian women.

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• Keep in mind You only have control over some
  aspects of your risk factors. Sierra Nevada
  Cancer is here to help if you are diagnosed, with
  facilities and treatments that will encourage
  healing in your battle against cancer.
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• For more information about breast cancer, click
  here. http//www.sierranevadacancer.com/news/focus
  -breast-cancer