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When someone was diagnosed with breast cancer, most patients will immediately be emotionally devastated. They feel they got a death sentence, even though patients may be cured even more so when still in early stages. In advanced stages, emotional and psychological impact can cause a depressed cancer patients. This can aggravate the situation.

For that, need the support of the family or friends. Breast cancer patients should tell their family or friends because people need the support of the people closest result of the impact of emotions they experienced. Is normal if the patient does not want to tell family or friends about their disease. The reason is because they do not want to bother or make the people who heard it to be sad or worried.

But, imagine the opposite situation, when you are not informed by the family or your close friends that he was suffering from cancer, of course you will be more sad because you do not know and might not provide the required assistance. Someone’s life is the closest and you can talk to find the best treatment and the impact that may be experienced.

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The emergence of a lump on the breast area may indicate the possibility of having breast cancer. But it has to be examined further in the hospital or doctor in order to ensure because not all kinds of lump mean cancer. The key to survive is to detect breast cancer earlier before it spread. Another indication of this disease is when there is a lump on the armpit, breast pain, color or texture changes of the breast, nipple extracted inside the areola (the brown area around the nipple).

In some cases, breast cancer was detected from the yellowish, greenish or suppurate fluid discharge from the nipple. The key to survive is to detect breast cancer earlier before it spread. One cause of high mortality from this disease is caused by a lack of awareness to detect its symptoms.

Generally, after arriving at the heavy grievances, the patients often consult to a doctor when they already experience severe symptoms, which is mean the cancer already at advanced stage. Therefore, it will be difficult to heal.

Women indeed are unique and complicated. Therefore, women would need extra care than men. The same as for health problems, women are quite vulnerable than men. Women are often experiencing drastic changes in their body compared to men, like hormonal problems. Women are experiencing several changes in their body since childhood, teens, adults and elderly.

Well, here are a variety of diseases that women should watch out for, namely: Breast cancer; breast cancer is common cancer on women, although there is also happens on men. This second top-cancer death cause on women can be detected as early as possible by doing prevention and self-examination every month.

Depression; depression is usually happens on women rather than men even though men experience the same pressure. Men are tending to be more resistant against depression. Various hormonal changes such as pregnancy and menopause are also become a factor that increases the risk of depression on women. Depression also has physical symptoms.

Osteoporosis; Osteoporosis is a disease of bone strength decreased due to bone thinning. This condition would make the bones more vulnerable, which means that the bones could easily be broken by only experience a light trauma. That is why we often meet people with osteoporosis suffer a fracture due to minor accidents such as slipping in the bathroom, fell out of bed and others. And one other thing, Asian and Caucasian women are having greater risk for suffering osteoporosis rather than black women.

Office workers that works for hours behind the desk, is easily experienced deadly blood clot, than an airplane passenger who traveled long distances. Thus the results of studies that published some time ago, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Research that has been done by Professor Richard Beasley from the Medical Research Institute in Wellington found that 65% of hospital patients who suffered “deep vein thrombosis” (DVT) were office workers who spend time in front of the computer.

DVT is the formation of blood clots on the inside veins, most often in the legs. That clots can be moved to the heart, lungs or brain, causing chest pain, shortness of breath or even death from heart attack or stroke.