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Some beliefs that only affects those who have a family history or age, or that the risk depends on breast size, plus former are harmful because they induce lower our guard against the disease.

One in two cancers diagnosed are cured, and the word cancer is no longer synonymous with terminal illness, said Professor Alfredo Carrato, president of the Spanish Society for Medical Oncology (SEOM), who stresses that there are still increasing rates healing and life expectancy of most tumors receiving concurrent treatment.

In the case of breast cancer in recent years there has been continuous progress in all fields, and there is increasing therapeutic options to treat the condition, in surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormone treatment.

Thanks to early diagnosis, early treatment and multidisciplinary, and monitoring and periodic monitoring are increasingly able to reduce the worst consequences of the disease and prevent relapse, which worsen the prognosis because most cases occur in the liver or bones.

In some cancers is almost reaching its chronic course, with the availability of drugs that can be combined with each other and can reduce disease and improve quality of life.

But many of these advances can be worth little if instead of addressing the scientific evidence, which shows that the sooner you discover and treat the disease, the best cure and credit is given to a series of false beliefs, which induce mistakes and oversights, which can be harmful and even lethal:

“If there are no cases in my family, I am safe “
FALSE: Although an alteration inherited through the genes is a major risk factor for having a breast tumor, more than 80 percent of women who develop breast cancer have no history of illness in his family. It is therefore necessary not to trust that “is safe” because the mother, grandmother or aunt have not fallen ill, and submit to regular gynecological examinations and mammograms when above 40 years of age.

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