The human body is made up of tiny building blocks called cells. These cells divide, grow, and die even as new cells develop to replace them. Usually, the body creates healthy, normal cells that do just what they're supposed to do. When some cells grow out of control, a tumor develops. The tumor can either be benign or malignant. Benign tumors are not cancer, they do not spread to other parts of the body. When benign tumors are removed, they usually do not come back, while malignant tumors can grow out of control and can spred to other parts of the body. When this happens, the tumor grouped together in the form of a mass or lump and will start to form and grow bigger.

Breast cancer is a kind of tumor that develops in the cells of a person's breast. One may think that only women can get breast cancer, but because all people have breast tissue, men can get breast cancer as well, although this is very rare.

A tumor can form anywhere in a person's body. Someone has cancer when those abnormal cells reproduce or multiply rapidly without control and causes sickness in the body. A person with breast cancer may have cancer cells in just one part of the breast, which might be felt as a lump. The cancer can spread throughout one or both breasts. Sometimes breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body, like the bones, the liver, or elsewhere.

About 12 to 13% of women develop breast cancer. Experts say that more than 170,000 women were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in the United States in 2007. Another 2,030 men were given the same diagnosis that year. Although breast cancer in men is rare, the incidence has been increasing, and men are diagnosed at a later stage than women. More than 40,000 women and 450 men died from breast cancer in 2007. As commonly claimed by the medical community, the earlier breast cancer is diagnosed, the earlier the chances of treatment. Apparently, many of those who died of breast cancer had been diagnosed during the advanced stages of the disease.

Dealing with breast cancer is one of the biggest challenges a woman has to ever face. Understandably, it is such a difficult situation and having cancer means having to deal with pain and pain relief.

There are many different ways to treat cancer pain. The ideal way is to remove the source of the pain through surgery, chemotherapy, radiation or some other form of treatment. If that cannot be done, pain relief medications can be used to control the pain.

Medications such as analgesics, NSAIDs, weak opioids (such as codeine) and strong opioid medications (such as morphine, oxycodone, fentanyl or methadone) can often be taken orally, so