{"id":1010,"date":"2017-10-03T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2017-08-30T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T22:15:30","slug":"breast-cancer-awareness-understanding-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/breast-cancer-awareness-understanding-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Awareness: Understanding Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Cancer is a broad term for a class of diseases characterized by abnormal cells that grow and invade healthy cells in the body.\u00a0 Breast cancer starts in the cells of the breast as a group of cancer cells that can then invade surrounding tissues or spread (metastasize) to other areas of the body.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Cancer begins in the cells which are the basic building blocks that make up tissue. The tissue is found in the breast and other parts of the body.\u00a0 Sometimes, the process of cell growth goes wrong and new cells form when the body doesn\u2019t need them and old or damaged cells do not die as they should.\u00a0 When this occurs, a build up of cells often forms a mass of tissue called a lump, growth, or tumor.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Breast cancer occurs when malignant tumors develop in the breast.\u00a0 These cells can spread by breaking away from the original tumor and entering blood vessels or lymph vessels, which branch into tissues throughout the body. When cancer cells travel to other parts of the body and begin damaging other tissues and organs, the process is called metastasis.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><i>Information from National Breast Cancer Organization:\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbreastcancer.org\/what-is-cancer\"><i>http:\/\/www.nationalbreastcancer.org\/what-is-cancer<\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Post-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1015\" src=\"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Post-1-1024x384.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Post-1-1024x384.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Post-1-300x113.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Post-1-768x288.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Post-1.jpeg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer is a broad term for a class of diseases characterized by abnormal cells that grow and invade healthy cells in the body.\u00a0 Breast cancer starts in the cells of the breast as a group of cancer cells that can then invade surrounding tissues or spread (metastasize) to other areas of the body. Cancer begins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}