Breast cancer and perspective!

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women. There are certain factors such as hormonal, environmental those initiate in developing breast cancer. Arsenic is one of the important causes of major types of breast cancer in case of environmental issue. Recently, it is reported that alcohol consumption is linked with developing breast cancer among women. Though mechanism is not clear enough, however, it is involved with genetic mutation. One cancer epidemiological survey suggested that more than one million women around the world are diagnosed with breast cancer every year and out of them 410,000 lost their lives. Now, regarding investigation procedure, ‘mammography’ is the valuable and useful diagnostic method of breast cancer mass detection. Until now, this ‘mammographic examination’ is established as only ‘screening procedure’ of breast cancer. There would be new nuclear medicine technique for future trend. Clinical examination is also mandatory in this regard. It is shown that breast cancer mass is mostly diagnosed in the later stage of malignancy. So, this is also suggested to perform ‘self examination’ to prevent fatality. Self examination and yearly screening are necessary steps.