What are the symptoms of breast cancer in lactation

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A friend gave birth to a baby a few months ago. Now she is in the lactation period. Sometimes she feels that her breast has a serious pain. After the doctor's examination, she says it is breast cancer. Next, let me talk about the symptoms of breast cancer in lactation period.

What are the symptoms of breast cancer in lactation

First, the age of onset is low, and the average age reported in the past is about 35 years old. This is actually not the characteristic of breast cancer, but the physiological phenomenon of pregnancy and lactation. It is the average age at birth. If we want to say that it is the characteristics of breast cancer, that is to say, most of these cases are young breast cancer.

Second: the course of this kind of breast cancer is long, but the symptomatic period is short. Often before pregnancy or early pregnancy physical examination found asymptomatic breast mass, because the patient is young, and in this special period, patients and doctors think more about pregnancy, not enough attention to breast mass and neglect. Only when the tumor develops to a certain stage can we pay attention to it, which delays the diagnosis and treatment.

Third, there was no significant difference in clinical manifestations between non pregnant and lactating breast cancer. But because the patients with this kind of breast cancer are in the best period of physiological conditions, even if the breast cancer is in a rather advanced stage, there is no systemic manifestation of the tumor itself. Because this kind of patients have obvious factors of delayed diagnosis and treatment, the disease stage of this kind of patients is often late, and the proportion of axillary lymph node enlargement is high, which is generally reported in about 80%, while the proportion of axillary lymph node enlargement is not higher than 60% in all breast cancer cases. Inflammatory breast cancer is also rare in pregnancy and lactation.

matters needing attention

If women do not pay attention to breast cancer during lactation, they are extremely prone to suffer from breast cancer. The symptoms are common. There are obvious lumps in the breast, which are often easy to be ignored. Therefore, we should be careful and pay attention to the problems.