Young women should be on the lookout for breast lumps, which run in families and should be screened annually

Breast cancer is the number one killer of women's health, and the trend of younger people is obvious, so that many women suspect that they have breast cancer when they have a slight discomfort in their breasts. Among women presenting to hospital outpatient clinics, the most common complaints are breast pain, breast lumps, or nipple discharge, which covers the most common symptoms of female breast diseases. Are these abnormalities an early symptom of breast cancer? What should I do? I believe that it is a concern for all women.

Breast pain is mostly caused by benign conditions

The influence of a variety of endocrine hormones in female breast receptors, such as estrogen, progesterone and biochemical substances, has direct and indirect effects on a series of physiological and pathological processes such as the development, maturation and degeneration of the breast gland at all ages in life.Because of this, the breasts have also become a frequent organ of disease.

Breast pain is the most common symptom in women of childbearing age, it can manifest as pain in one or both breasts, some are cyclical breast pain, such as breast tenderness that begins 1-2 weeks before the menstrual period, and the breast pain is relieved or disappears after menstruation, this condition is the result of regular fluctuations in sex hormones in the receptors, and this breast pain is largely normal or physiological. There are also some persistent breast pain, also known as non-cyclic breast pain, whether the breast pain persists or fluctuates during the premenstrual period or after the menstrual period, and should be taken seriously.

Most breast pain is caused by benign conditions, and very few are caused by breast cancer itself. Most breast pain is tolerable, while a few are unbearable, which will affect work and life. Today, with the rising incidence of breast cancer, many women with breast pain will be very nervous and afraid of breast cancer. However, in fact, the vast majority of breast pain is not related to breast cancer, and in many cases, the breast discomfort that women feel is not necessarily caused by the breast itself. Of course, breast pain is not clinically significant, as in rare cases, breast cancer patients may present with breast pain. Therefore, it is recommended that women with breast pain need to have regular breast examinations, breast ultrasounds, or mammography at specialized hospitals to rule out breast cancer.

Younger women should be more aware of breast lumps

Breast lumps, whether doctors, patients or healthy people, the first reaction to a breast lump is nothing more than "is it breast cancer"?Because the most important thing in the management of breast lumps is to identify whether the lump is breast cancer and whether there is a possibility of early breast cancer at the same time. How big is a breast lump that is likely to be breast cancer? This is related to many factors, such as age, menstrual status, fertility, medical history characteristics, and mass characteristics. These factors have a certain value, but they are not absolute, and should be comprehensively analyzed and considered. After understanding these factors, it is often necessary to selectively carry out some other examinations to further judge the nature of the lump, and once breast cancer is suspected, it is necessary to continue the examination to clarify the results so as not to miss the diagnosis, especially pay attention to the length of time the lump grows, the speed of growth, the size and texture of the lump, and whether it is accompanied by pain. If the physical examination reveals a breast lump with a hard texture, irregular shape, unclear edges, poor range of motion, and skin adhesions, it is a sign of breast cancer.

Generally speaking, young women with breast cancer may have atypical symptoms, are not easy to detect early, progress quickly, and have a poor prognosis. The most important thing in the management of breast lumps is to minimize missed diagnoses as much as possible. Therefore, any breast lump suspected of breast cancer should be examined first, such as B-ultrasound, molybdenum and palladium photography, MRI, etc., and the diagnosis needs to be confirmed by breast lump puncture or biopsy.

Young women with a family history should be screened annually for x-rays

According to foreign survey data, X-ray screening alone can reduce the mortality rate of breast cancer by 30%, and screening 500 women every 7 consecutive years can prevent 1 death from breast cancer.It is understood that if X-ray screening can be popularized in China, 20,000 women can be prevented from dying from breast cancer every year.

"In clinical practice, we found that many women are worried about the harm of X-rays to the human body, in fact, X-ray screening once a year, the so-called dose of radiation is very small, on the contrary, if not checked, it may lead to delaying the condition and missing the best time for surgery, and the gains outweigh the losses." Expert presentation. It is reported that if someone in the family develops breast cancer, the risk of other female first-degree relatives developing the disease is 4-6 times higher than that of people without a family history. It is reported that the high incidence of breast cancer is between 40 and 50 years old or 60 years old, and the incidence of male cancer is only 1% of that of women. Therefore, women with a family history of breast cancer must insist on coming to the hospital for X-ray screening every year.