Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers to affect women. Certainly amongst women it is the one that has proven to be the most deadly. Thousands of individuals each year will find their lives affected by this disease – whether they themselves develop it or someone close to them will have it.
What is the immune system?
Inside your body there is an amazing protection mechanism called the immune system. It is designed to defend you against millions of bacteria, microbes, viruses, toxins and parasites that would love to invade your body. To understand the power of the immune system, all that you have to do is look at what happens to anything once it dies. That sounds gross, but it does show you something very important about your immune system.
Where do cancer cells come from? Surprisingly, no one knows, not even the most intelligent scientists have unlocked this mystery. They only know about how cancer cells behave, how they attack healthy neighboring cells, how our genes affect them, how they replicate and move on to other parts of the body, but sadly, they do not know the real cause of these “bad” cells.
