We encounter many struggles and difficulties in life. Some have more difficulties than others, but we all have them. Breast cancer could be one of those struggles for both men and women. Breast cancer is not just something a woman can get as most people believe. Anyone can get it. In this essay you will talk about what breast cancer is, some of the symptoms, how it is treated, and my personal experience with it. Most people don't know what breast cancer is, they just know that it is breast cancer. What is breast cancer? According to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institute of Health, breast cancer is a “cancer that forms in the tissues of the breast” (cancer.gov). More specifically, breast cancer is a malignant tumor that grows within the breast tissue. What happens There is a cell in the tissue that does not receive the stop signal and continues to divide in this large mass. This large mass continues to grow and grow and may eventually take up space intended for other tissues or enter the bloodstream by taking in dividing cells. elsewhere. Breast cancer normally starts in one of two places. Of the few people who know what breast cancer is, some simply believe it is a lump. They don't know there is a process for breast cancer, but they don't know the tumor comes from somewhere and doesn't magically appear. Breast cancer can manifest itself in several ways in the breast, but "the most common type of breast cancer is ductal carcinoma" (cancer.gov). lining of the milk ducts. The ducts are the tubes that transport milk from the lobules to the nipple. Think of them as little veins that run from your nipple to a little sac. Another place where cancer might start is... center of the card... the axillary lymph nodes. The third way IIA can be detected is if a tumor no smaller than two centimeters and no larger than five centimeters is present and has not spread to the axillary lymph nodes. IIA and IIB are similar, but the difference is that IIB tumors are detected and they are larger than the few found in IIA. Stage IIB can also be detected in three ways. If there is a tumor between two and five centimeters in size, there are small clusters of breast cancer cells measuring between 0.2 and 2 millimeters in size in the lymph nodes. The second way IIB can be detected is if a tumor of the same size is found, but this time present with tumor cells that have spread to two or three axillary lymph nodes or to lymph nodes near the breastbone. The latter way can be described as a tumor larger than five centimeters but which has not spread to the axillary lymph nodes.