Breast cancer in women and men incorporates about thirteen percent of the total population. Now that may not sound earth shattering to you, but explain that to all the women and men who are diagnosed with breast cancer and have very little chance of survival. You have to wonder how you would react to this news.
The health insurance providers find that because of the exorbitant expense that is involved on a long-term basis will at time cancel the health insurance policy when an individual receives the diagnosis. This makes life very difficult for the individual and for the medical health care physicians whose hands become tied.
In recent years, there are an estimated one hundred ninety-two thousand four hundred women receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer every year. In the male category, the medical health care community estimates about sixty-five thousand men are also diagnosed with breast cancer every year.
The medical health care community shows statistically that comes out to one in every eight individuals. Recently one of the major changes noted by the health insurance providers is the fact that a more invasive breast cancer is beginning to be diagnosed that was only diagnosed in women.
In women, there has been a small reduction in the number of new breast cancer diagnosis and the health insurance providers and the medical health care community believe this is due to the reduction in the use of hormone replacement therapy. Statistically, of the one hundred ninety two thousand four hundred women being diagnosed with a form of breast cancer, about forty-one thousand women will be facing certain death.
The medical health care physicians can show that early detection, treatment advances, screening and the increased awareness is what is helping more women and men to survive and beat the odds. The health insurance providers agree that women in the United States diagnosed with breast cancer still have a much higher death rate as opposed to women diagnosed with any other form of cancer.
The health insurance providers and the medical health care community realize how deadly this disease is for women and for a small percentage of men. The hope is that in the future the medical health care community will have the funding to continue the research for better, more innovative ways to treat this killer disease.
The medical health care community has been able to identify the BRCA1 and the BRCA2 genes, which are the cause in about five to ten percent of all diagnosed breast cancers. This is an inherited mutation gene that is passed down in families from the mother, the father, or in some cases both.
Women who have been found by their medical health care physician to carry the disease will find they have an eighty percent risk of developing breast cancer as they enter the fertile period and again in their later years. Sadly, the health insurance providers have proven that the majority of women diagnosed with a form of breast cancer are not through inheritance from their mother or father.