Understanding Breast Changes

by Consumer Information Center - Describes the various types of breast changes that women experience. Also discusses breast cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. 52 pp.

What You Need To Know About Skin Cancer

Discusses symptoms, the importance of early detection, treatments, how to do a skin self-exam, and where to go for more information.

Understanding Treatment Choices for Prostrate Cancer

Newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients and their families face many treatment choices. Here's information on how prostate cancer is diagnosed, available treatment options, and follow-up care. 44 pp.

Breast Cancer

The female breasts are modified sweat glands composed of lobes and lobules interspersed with adipose tissue and connective tissue. Ducts drain from each lobule. These converge to form a lactiferous duct that drains from each lobe. The lactiferous ducts merge just beneath the nipple to form a lactiferous sinus.

Cytopathology (Pap Smears)

Cytopathology is the study of disease in cells. Despite all of the technological advances which have occured in medicine in the last 100 years, the cervicovaginal smear, or Pap smear, named for its developer, Dr. George Papanicolaou, is still one of the few tests we have available which can detect the presence of a premalignant lesion allowing for the prevention of cancer.

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