What I Already Know About My Topic. . .

My curiosity has led me to further research about breast cancer. I wondered what it was and how it was caused growing up I was not informed about, mostly likely because my parents and other surrounding family remembers where uneducated about the topic. As I got older and found out that my grandmother had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer, I was very intrigued of the human body and all of the functions it can do, involuntary or voluntary. Before my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was very unaware and did not a care in the world about the matter. Breast cancer is a disease in which malignant cells form in the tissues of the breast. It is considered a heterogeneous disease—contrary in individual, age group, and even the kinds of cells within the tumors themselves. Women in the United States get breast cancer more than any other type of cancer except for skin cancer. It is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in women. Each year it is estimated that nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40,000 will die.