Breast cancer is the disease that may worry many woman but do you know breast cancer can be cured if you do breast exam regularly as if breast cancer is found earlier, the chance of successful treatment is better.
Factors that increase the risk of breast cancer
1. Age: cell division in duct can be abnormal in older woman more than younger one, so there are more chances of developing breast cancer
2. Not having a child: breast milk supply of a mother will allow the breast cell grow highest, the abnormal cell division is less and less chance of having breast cancer
3. Birth control pill: taking birth control pills continuously more than 5 years increase the chance of developing breast cancer
4. Genetic: if a member of family has had a breast cancer, you will have 10 percent more risk
Check your body well if you do not want to have a breast cancer
Almost every disease has warning sign but in the first stage of breast cancer, there are no warning signs. Therefore, breast examination is recommended so that the cancer can be found in the early stage
-   For woman aged above 20 years old, self-breast exam should be done to look for any mass and visit the doctor every three years
-   For women aged less than 35 years old, ultrasound should be done at least once
-   For women aged more than 35 years old, digital mammogram and ultrasound should be done at least once
-   For women aged more than 40 years old, digital mammogram and ultrasound should be done at least once a year

Diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer
After examination by mammogram and ultrasound, if the physician is suspected of possible breast cancer, the physician will perform history taking to find other risk factors, remove the sample of the mass for further investigations and the result will be planned for treatment and diagnosis.
If it is diagnosed as breast cancer, the physician will provide treatment according to the stage of cancer which will be as below:
1. Surgery
2. Chemotherapy
3. Radiotherapy
4. Hormone therapy
5. Targeted therapy
How to care for yourself to prevent from breast cancer
As we cannot find the exact cause of breast cancer, there is no sure way to prevent it but the best way you can do is regular self-breast exam. Avoid any risk factors that will increase the chance of breast cancer such as being overweight. You should have healthy diet in appropriate quantity, exercise regularly and consult gynecologist if you would like to use birth control.