Pagets Disease Of The Breast

Cancer starts when cells begin to grow out of control. Cells in nearly any part of the body can become cancer, and can spread to other areas of the body. Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that starts in the cells of the breast. A malignant tumor is a group of cancer cells that can grow into surrounding tissues or spread to distant areas of the body. The disease occurs almost entirely in women when compare to men.

Statistics of Pagets Disease of the Breast in China: The current screening efforts of breast cancer in China 187,000 new breast cancer cases were diagnosed in China in 2012, accounting for nearly 12% of the whole world new breast cancer cases, with an age-standardized rate (ASR) of 22.1 cases per 100,000 women, while 48,000 females died from breast cancer, accounting for about 9% of the whole world, with an ASR of 5.4 cases per 100,000 women. The Chinese Cancer Registry Annual Report 2015 showed that breast cancer is the most common malignancy among Chinese females, with an estimated incidence of 25.89 cases per 100,000 women

Treatment of paget's disease of the breast: breast-conserving surgery, followed by radiation therapy, modified radical mastectomy, axillary lymph node dissection, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, biological therapy, bisphosphonates.