Great vigilance of breast cancer axillary lymph node

As we all know, breast cancer is harmful to women’s health, its main symptoms is suffering from milk can touch painless, a single, edge blur activity of a small mass, and some may have nipple discharge, nipple inversion , breast orange peel-like skin changes and other symptoms. However, there are some patients, neither the above-mentioned typical symptoms, and no whole body discomfort, but only axillary lymph nodes as the first symptom, this breast cancer in medicine called “occult breast cancer.”

The incidence of occult breast cancer, like breast cancer, age and common to middle-aged women, mostly, of which 45-49 years and 60-69 years age group the most. This explains its causes and female sex hormone disorder closely related. Due to the lack of typical symptoms of occult breast cancer, is often neglected by patients, clinical diagnosis is also very difficult, so a greater harm, should cause the majority of patients and clinicians are highly valued.

To increase the vigilance of occult breast cancer, from the patient point of view, should always carefully around the breast changes, with particular attention to the touch, thickening, and ill-defined glands, especially the sexual glands was increased large, even more can not be insensitive. Because of localized thickening of the gland about 15% of people have hidden precancerous lesions, paying particular attention to whether there is palpable axillary lymph nodes. Abnormal immediately diagnosed a specialist treatment.