October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness and honor patients and survivors. Research reveals that in 2022, there were 2.3 million women diagnosed and 670,000 deaths from breast cancer worldwide.
Breast cancer begins when healthy breast cells start to change or mutate. Instead of growing and dividing in an orderly way, cells grow out of control and form a tumor. As the cancer spreads throughout the body, the cancer cells attach to organs or tissues—often the lungs, bones, liver or brain—and begin forming new tumors.
The new tissues in the body begin to damage the surrounding normal tissues, causing symptoms such as bone pain, headaches, shortness of breath, and pain in other parts of the body. Symptoms of ongoing pain or lumps are from the cell growth inside your body, caused by the cancer.
This life-changing diagnosis affects many aspects of a person’s life, including their
emotional and physical well-being.
Emotionally, this diagnosis can make you experience anxiety, sadness, loneliness, anger or irritability. Showing signs of continuous tiredness, skin changes, abnormal swelling, breast changes and bone pain are physical side effects of breast cancer.
However, some diagnosed patients have no symptoms of the cancer, especially in the early stages. The stage of your breast cancer depends on the location and size of the tumor.
The “early stages” of cancer are stages zero and one, when the cancer is contained in the breast and hasn’t spread, which makes it more treatable. In the United States.......Here's the rest of the story.
Over the next few
months, crews will be working behind k-rail on eastbound and westbound Katella Avenue between the freeway and Epson Way. Work includes relocating utilities, reconstructing the sidewalks and performing roadway work to make room for a new bike lane. 
