The possibility of breast lumps

Mass how to conduct breast self-examination

Breasts are a sign of female sexual maturity. Are breast-feeding organ, but also is an eventful areas, each woman, especially the middle age, and should conduct regular self-examination. As the breast affected by the cyclical nature of hormonal regulation of ovarian, breast itself is not changing all the time, breast lumps physiological and pathological co-exist, as well as hyperplasia of mammary glands of the tumor itself, the volatility, thus breast lumps and other parts of the mass comparison, there is a clear variability, we can distinguish the following ways to contribute to timely diagnosis and treatment.

Physiological hyperplasia 4-5 days before menstrual cramps feel swollen breasts, nipple tenderness, until after menstruation, breast pain gradually disappears. This is because the mammary gland by ovarian secretion of estrogen’s role, so that local congestion and edema in the breast, is normally no special treatment.

Hyperplasia of mammary glands, according to statistics about all the breast mass 2 / 3 or so, more common in women aged 30-40. Its breast was divided into simple hyperplasia, and two types of breast cystic hyperplasia.

Simple hyperplasia mainly for breast tenderness, lesions at a slight thickening of the feeling, touching no obvious lumps.

Cystic hyperplasia is characterized by breast pain less, but the mass was more obvious when the tumor palpation there are special sense of particle samples, levels are not very clear, there are a few days before menstrual cramps significantly increased, accompanied by pain, After the mass reduced menstrual pain, cyclical changes in mass for single or multiple, one or both breasts may be affected. Generally do not need treatment, the pain worse, may serve Sanjie Ling and other traditional Chinese medicine preparation, usually Daixiong Zhao, hold up the breast, but about 2-3% of patients with malignant potential and should be on a regular basis to the hospital for examination, so as not to delay treatment.

As a benign breast fibroadenoma, which is usually a single tumor in the breast side of the oval in shape, such as longan, or cherry-sized, surface smooth, hard-real texture, borders clear back and forth within the breast tumor to promote , often feel no pain, more than occasionally appear in the bilateral breast tumor, fibroma although the possibility of cancer is small, but surgery should be as soon as possible.

Predilection of breast cancer in women aged 40-59, according to statistics of breast cancer patients are early menarche, late menopause. The vast majority of patients with palpable breast lumps, the hardness of its mass is very inconsistent, when the cancer returned in early confined to tubular epithelium, the tumor can not be touched, when developed to a certain extent, tumor 1 cm in diameter when touched. Early breast cancer is also the activities, but it is the total root growth, invade surrounding tissue and that its activity will be getting worse, position, gradually fixed. Most mass was irregular, round or oval, borders not very clear, texture hard, more common in breast tumor outside the top and bottom of the inside of the breast occurred in rare. A small number of patients with early stage can be completely asymptomatic, but when they find can not be pulled out of inverted nipple, breast skin, wrinkling, or was orange peel-like, nipple ulceration prolonged unhealed, breast pain, persistent feeling of discomfort, palpable to the axillary lymph nodes, these symptoms occurs, is often late manifestation of breast cancer. In the surface of breast cancer, early detection should have no difficulty, but there are still many patients, when treatment is already late, so the importance of breast self-examination regularly.

In order to prevent the occurrence of breast disease, usually also tell their own breasts to observe the shape, color, usually 2-3 days observation time, before going to sleep, or taking a bath when her breasts to touch the checks. Method is left palm face attached to the right breast, and then use a stable sliding moves around in the breast, axillary, supraclavicular upper and lower parts of another to make concentric circles moving, do not hand Zhuanie breast, so as not to be mistaken for tumor glands . Check on the left breast, the direction is the opposite, this may be the early detection of disease and conquer.