Here are some things you should do to take care of a wound caused by a cat or dog bite:

* If necessary, call your doctor (see the shaded box below).
* Wash the wound gently with soap and water.
* Apply pressure with a clean towel to the injured area to stop any bleeding.
* Apply a sterile bandage to the wound.
* Keep the injury elevated above the level of the heart to slow swelling and prevent infection.
* Report the incident to the proper authority in your community (for example, the animal control office or the police).
* Apply antibiotic ointment to the area 2 times every day until it heals.
(http://familydoctor.org)

Everything have positive and negative side, so if you decide to take a cat or dog at your home..you should to aware of their health..

However, researchers are working to learn how our “external” and “internal” environments may work separately and together to affect our health and possibly the risk of developing breast cancer. “Internal environment” means the things inside our bodies that influence our health, such as genetics (the genes you got from your mother and father), hormones, illnesses, and feelings and thoughts. “External environment” refers to the things outside of our bodies that influence our health, such as air, water, food, danger, music, noise, people, and stress. Also, the external environment enters our internal environment every day — think of the food you eat, water you drink, air you breathe (including whether you smoke or not), and medicines you take.

More subtlely, there's the way you “breathe in” or absorb your environment, such as your home or workplace, and the way you take in energy from the people you spend time with.
Some of these factors, such as your genetic makeup and the medicines that you take, have a very direct effect on your breast health. The impact of other, indirect factors, such as air quality, exercise, meditation, and spending time with friends, is less well understood.

Anything that INCREASES your chance of developing breast cancer is called a risk factor. Anything that REDUCES your risk of developing breast cancer is called a protective factor.

You can control some risk factors. For example, if you are overweight, you can seek to lose excess pounds, which may reduce your risk of breast cancer. You can also make informed choices about the medicines you take.

But other factors are beyond your control. For instance, you can't change your gender. Women are much more likely than men to have breast cancer. This is mostly because women have more estrogen and progesterone in their bodies. These hormones stimulate breast cell growth — both normal and abnormal. Also, you can't stop growing older. Aging is the biggest risk factor for breast cancer (besides being a woman).

Risk reduction means making choices to avoid or minimize any possible risk factors that you can. It also means increasing the protective factors in your life so your chances of developing breast cancer are lower.

Although you can control many risk factor, remember that doing so does not guarantee zero risk. It is also important to keep in mind that many women who have a particular risk factor for breast cancer never develop it.

Knowledge is power. Instead of living under the shadow of myths and misunderstanding,

KNOW your own realistic level of risk. Then you can talk to your doctor about ways to lessen controllable risk factors and boost your protective factors.

According to http://www.aicr.org.uk/NewWaystotreatBreastCancer.stm

Scientists in London have identified the master switch controlling a protein associated with the spread of breast cancer around the body. They believe their discovery could lead to more effective treatment of aggressive breast cancers, enabling them to target treatments more specifically.

The work, funded by the Association for International Cancer Research and Breast Cancer Campaign (BCC) and published on 15th April 2005 identified how the protein HSP27 is increased in these cancer cells. Breast cancers with a higher level of this protein normally spread faster and are more resistant to current drug treatments, resulting in fewer patients surviving the disease.
A team from University College London, in collaboration with other colleagues-particularly from St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals-found increased levels of a master switch protein called Brn-3b acted directly to make the breast cancer cells produce more HSP27. Conversely when it was removed, they registered decreased levels of HSP27. This, in turn, significantly modified the behaviour of the cancer cells, making them more likely to spread and be resistant to chemotherapy.

Dr Vishwanie Budhram-Mahadeo, who led the team from UCL explained:
"By analysing proteins in biopsies taken from patients with breast cancer and comparing them to biopsies from normal or benign breast tissue, we were able to show a striking correlation of Brn-3b with the high levels of HSP27 protein in the diseased tissue. Brm-3b boosts the invasiveness of cancer cells, and contributes to the deadly nature of this disease. We can now work out strategies to deal with cancers with increased Brn-3b without adversely affecting the healthy cells around it that do not express high levels of the protein."

Norman Barrett, Chief Executive of the Association for International Cancer Research added:
"These studies will pave the way for future research in which we can treat patients on the basis of the molecular fingerprint that will be specific and unique to every individual. This will allow therapy to be tailored to treat patients whose tumours have high levels of Brn-3b to reverse the growth of cancer cells while minimising the undesirable side effects of conventional therapies."

Pamela Goldberg, Chief Executive of the Breast Cancer Campaign (BCC) said,
"In the same way that breast cancer is not one disease, there will not be one cure. Each patient's breast cancer is different and it is only through advances in our understanding of the basic molecular changes that occur in cells to turn them cancerous that we will make progress in developing more effective methods of diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and hopefully help us prevent the disease in all women."

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.