Breast Cancer
In developing countries such as India the incidence of breast cancer is rising.
The reason is because more and more women are working outside their homes which
allows the various risk factors ( late age at first childbirth, fewer children
and shorter duration of breast-feeding, early age at menarche and late age at
menopause add to the risk) of breast cancer to come into play. Family history of
breast cancer increases the risk, these families have many members who fall
victim to the disease, which tends to occur at a relatively young age and often
affects both breasts Two genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) have been identified. Urban
women are more affected than rural. Early diagnosis and treatment is important
to cure.
Detection of breast cancer.
(i) Mammography i.e. X-ray of the breast, done at regular intervals once every 2
years.
(ii) Get yourself examined clinically by a breast specialist.
(iii) Self-examination whereby a woman examines her own breasts once a month
after taking lessons from an expert.
Many young women experience pain in their breasts, especially before their
periods which is usually not related to cancer. Pain in the breast is rare after
menopause.
Many women have lumpy breasts which is known as “fibroadenosis”. This is not a
precursor of cancer. Premenopausal lumps in the breast may be caused by cysts
containing fluid. Discharge from the nipple if it is bloody, may sometimes
indicate the presence of early cancer. Do not ignore a lump in the breast.
TREATMENT
Croton tiglium
Pains of Croton tiglium extend to the back
when child is nursing. It feels to her as if a string were attached behind the
nipple pulling backward, a sharp, drawing, stinging pain that will in some
instances keep her walking the floor night and day.At times it brings tears to
her eyes. Croton tig. is capable of curing a pain that is very prolonged or
tedious. Hot applications did not give relief.
Phytolacca
When the breasts show a tendency to cake and suppuration threatens, pain goes
from nipple all over body, and there is excessive flow of milk.Soreness
(inflammation) and lumps in the breasts (nursing woman - milk becomes stringy;
coagulated milk) from each cold, damp spell; becomes chilled and a sore breast
results; sore breast in connection with the menses. Almost any excitement (fear
or an accident) centers in the mammary gland; lumps form, pains, heat, swelling,
tumefaction; violent inflammation and suppuration. Mercury is similar; when the
patient takes cold the glands become sore. Phytolacca when every tribulation
makes the glands sore in a nursing woman. When there is no milk, or the milk is
scanty, thick, unhealthy; dries up soon. A bloody watery discharge after weaning
the infant.
Conium has nodosities in the female breast,
and it is distinguished from Phytolacca - In Conium, here there is stony
hardness, and it is less acute than Phytolacca ; in Conium the breasts are
exceedingly sensitive, cannot bear the touch of clothes, and walking or jarring
is painful.Conium patients cannot endure even the slightest alcoholic drink.
Indurations and enlargement of the ovaries and uterus.Uterine spasms during too
early and scanty menses. Great soreness of the breasts. Dwindling of the mammary
glands as well as enlargement and indurations. Suppressed menstruation, painful
menstruation, throbbing, tearing, burning pains in the uterus and in the
ovaries, in the pelvis.Fibroid tumors of the uterus. Cancer of the cervix,
indurations and infiltration of the cervix. Indurations and infiltration of
tissues that have been inflamed, stenoses apt to form where inflammation has
been present. Stricture of the urethra and stenosis of the os uteri.
Conium patient sweats copiously during sleep, on merely closing the eyes s/he
will sweat. On closing the eyes preparatory to going to sleep s/he will break
out in a sweat.
Calcarea fluorica
Hard nodules in the mammae. Induration threatening suppuration.
Silicea Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in. Fistulous
ulcers of breast (Phos); hard lumps in breast (conium), nodes in the breast.
Phellandrium Pain in milk ducts; intolerable
between nursing. Pain in nipples.
When the pain courses along the milk ducts when child is not nursing.
Pulsatilla
It is indicated when mechanical irritation excites flow of milk.
It is also indicated where the flow of milk is scanty or absent, and where the
patient is gloomy and tearful.
Bryonia, Belladonna
and Phosphorus are useful in abscess of the
mammary gland.
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