Breast grow “dimple” vigilance Breast Cancer
October 10th, 2009
Most breast cancer no obvious pain, early onset, about 5% of the people may be associated with bloody nipple discharge, when the tumor affects the skin, the more points there are different degrees of depression, known as the “dimple sign.”
Breast lump is breast cancer the most important and basic symptoms of breast lumps occur in the outer top, the size is generally about 2 cm for the irregular spherical block. In addition, the breast and nipple shape, contour and curvature of the changes, such as bilateral breast asymmetry, nipple inversion, etc. is also the performance of breast cancer.
“Dimple sign” more preference for seven kinds of women:
A family history of cancer, especially mother or sister had suffered from breast cancer;
Early menarche (12 years of age), menopause, late age (55 years or older) person;
Suffering from certain benign breast disease;
Receives regular chest X-ray radiation of the chest or shooting people;
Has never been breast-feeding, never too late or the birth, or birth abortion, more than the number of people;
Breast density, a more solid texture of women;
Above the waist in particular obesity, waist circumference and hip similar to women.
Therefore, a female friend in self-examination, we should pay attention to two points:
First, the inspection time to be elected in the monthly menstrual clean after a week, facing the mirror, careful observation of bilateral breast contour is normal, symmetrical; the size of any change (if no side of the swelling, shrinking, etc.); see Bilateral nipple is symmetrical, with or without retraction, swarmed, swelling or eczema-like changes; to see whether the breast skin, orange peel-like change in the availability of local depression when squeezed.
Second, Lying on the bed, focus on examination of each side outside the top of the breast for lumps, because a large number of breast cancer cases from the analysis concludes that about 60% of the lesions were located outside the top of the breast.
Experts remind that if early detection, early treatment, 90% of breast cancer is curable.