Breast Structure and Their Fuction

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From the post below, you know what the compose of breast right? Ok, I repeat, the breast is complicated with the network of milk producing sacs, passageways for carrying milk, supporting tissue, tiny muscles, lymph nodes, gland and fat. Complicated right? Not only fat ! Breast tissue is a complex network of lobule and mammary duct i a pattern resembling bunches of grapes on their stems.

The lobules are spherical-shaped sacs that produce milk, and the ducts are the canals that carry milk from the lobules to the nipple openings when a woman is breastfeeding. The tiniest ducts attached to lobules join together like the branches of grape stems into increasingly larger ducts. There are between five and ten ductal systems in each breast, each with its own opening at the nipple. Each breast has up to about a million lobules

Muscle tissue in the nipple allows it to become erect in response to sexual stimulation or breastfeeding. There is also muscle tissue around the lobules that helps squeeze milk into the ducts. Glands on the areola, the shaded circle of skin surrounding the nipple, secrete small amounts of fluid to lubricate the nipple when breastfeeding [2,3]. Figure 1.1 shows the different parts of the breast.

The Structure of Breast

Welcome and the Introduction

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First of all, welcome to Breast Cancer Info. Here, you will find the latest info about breast cancer, how to treat breast cancer, diagnosis and treatment, risk factors and screening.

In the life time of women, a lot of changes occur to their breast, it's important to know which of those changes are normal and which are not. Every women should to know the structure and the function of their breast. May be i focus this topic to the women because a lot of breast cancer's patient is almost the women and the percentage of men is less than women.

Most people know the breast is compose of fat, but they are actually much more complex than that. The breast are complicated with the network of milk producing sacs, passageways for carrying milk, supporting tissue, tiny muscles, lymph nodes, gland and fat. Complicated right? Not only fat !

The knowledge about the breast and breast cancer is important for understanding health and and disease that effect the breast.

Breast Cancer is dangerous for women because, following the research at United State, one of eight women is risk to get the breast cancer. You should know also, the breast cancer is the number two of killer to women after lung cancer.