Breast lumps and breast cancer

Breast cancer is the most common cancer of women, the incidence rate on the rise. Risk factors of breast cancer for women a higher chance of breast cancer, more common in the 35.55-year-old women.

Breast cancer can be expressed as a single small painless breast lump, and occasionally found in the bath or dressing. Or without any symptoms, examination by a doctor found that mass texture hard, smooth surface, with the surrounding normal tissue boundaries is not very clear. Occasional nipple discharge, mostly bloody fluid. Some patients have painless lump armpit. Breast lumps may appear at the skin retraction, such as “dimple.” Nipple retraction may also occur, for signs of breast cancer earlier, such incidents should go to the hospital.

Can not palpable early breast cancer have to depend on a regular basis, or breast x-ray, B ultrasonic examination in order to find breast cancer early detection, prompt treatment more available to life-long cure. Found that late, treatment is not so good. Breast longer than the body surface is conducive to early detection, but the lack of early symptoms of breast cancer, many patients with breast cancer are generally found in more than 1 cm, the tumor has been the growth of 3-6 years.

Therefore, early detection of breast cancer, universal knowledge is very important anti-cancer, more than middle-aged women should have some knowledge of breast cancer. And periodically (each month) to conduct a self-breast examination, if found to have breast lumps or thickening of mammary glands, or nipple discharge, or nipple elevation, inversion, etc. should be timely treatment, please be further diagnosed breast practitioners , but do not panic, because of breast lumps are not necessarily cancer, but breast hyperplasia, which is characterized by breast pain, occur or worsen in the premenstrual, menstrual cramps disappeared or mitigation, there are cyclical, to the palpable breast mass was nodular or granular, quality tough but not hard, with unclear boundaries of the surrounding normal breast tissue, no adhesion.

A small number of mammary hyperplasia sometimes associated with early breast cancer is also difficult to distinguish between, breast medical practitioners need to be further examination. Highly suspected cancer, the do X ray mammography, B-mode ultrasound breast duct endoscopy and mass puncture cytology and so on, finally confirmed to take frequent removal of tumor pathology examination or surgery line quickly frozen biopsy.