Monday, May 11, 2009
Symptoms of breast cancer
Symptoms of breast cancer:Ten breast cancer symptoms
1. Breasts become larger: There are a small portion of patients, the primary symptoms of the larger breast, and sometimes feel less than fully mass.
2. Subfoveal or the entire deformation of the skin: breast skin subfoveal lower places is affected by the expansion of the skin caused by breast cancer, but patients are often not aware of such symptoms.
3. Papilla flattening or depression: Depression inverted nipple is easily noticed symptoms, this is because surrounding breast tissue fibrosis, involve duct system caused by shortening the dent caused by the nipple. However, some people born with the inverted nipple is.
4. Breast skin ulcers: If the host site for breast cancer compared to the violation of superficial skin will cause skin ulcers, this is a very good sign, even if part of a small ulceration, are often unable to cut the.
5. Breast skin red: red breast skin, sometimes accompanied by edema, is also a very good sign, surgery often is not. Some physicians may initially think that this phenomenon is the symptoms of breast infection and inflammation of the use of antibiotics in the treatment, in fact, breast infection and abscess usually occurs in lactating women, as for other women if the symptoms of breast skin red, should be consider the possibility of breast cancer.
6. Abnormal nipple secretions: some women because of taking certain drugs, or the regular breast squeeze pinch, or in late pregnancy, and have breast secretions. In addition, if so, have a breast secretions, should pay special attention to, although most of the tube by the benign papillomas caused further examination should be done, such as cytology, to distinguish between benign or malignant.
7. Papilla epidermal itching, reddening, thickening and ulceration: eczema-like skin nipple changes, such as red and thick, there are scaling, crusted, moist, fluid or itching and so on, have these phenomena, the Eczema treatment in accordance with the two weeks after the invalid, the Department will have to get a breast specialist treatment to be done, if necessary, biopsy pathology.
8. Subaxillary mass: some patients, breast cancer occurred in the original parts, slow the growth of cancer cells, tumors are still very small, not touching, but axillary lymph node metastasis of cancer cells to grow faster is to axillary become under the mass of the initial issuance of the symptoms of breast cancer.
9. Back pain: a very small portion of patients, spinal cord compression due to metastasis of breast cancer, with symptoms of back pain.
10. No symptoms: In foreign countries, a substantial proportion of patients for medical treatment because of other diseases, the doctors do for patients to check and found the body of the breast tumor. In China, because the atmosphere is still conservative, and generally not used for patients and physicians in the examination when other diseases of breast palpation, which reduces the chance of early detection of many.

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