What are the symptoms of breast disease?

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Traditional Chinese medicine calls hyperplasia of mammary glands as "mammophilia". The etiology of mammophilia is recognized from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. It is caused by stagnation of liver qi, imbalance of Chong and Ren, and coagulation of phlegm and blood stasis; In this type, the prominent symptom is mastalgia, which belongs to "qi stagnation type". What are the symptoms of breast disease? I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the symptoms of breast disease?

Pain is the most common symptom, accounting for about 70-80%. Many women may be more or less troubled by breast pain. If they touch the mass, they think they have breast cancer and panic. In fact, most of the patients diagnosed with pain are not tumors. And breast cancer is generally not accompanied by pain, only a small part of cancer because of advanced tumor invasion of nerve will cause pain, in the symptoms of pain, the proportion of breast cancer is very low. Most of the pain is caused by hyperplasia of mammary glands, which is characterized by swelling pain, tingling pain and radiating pain on the shoulder and back. It has regularity and periodicity. It is obvious in premenstrual period, and it is relieved or relieved after menstruation. Therefore, female friends need not be nervous when they encounter breast pain, and they can go to the hospital in time.

The normal mammary gland structure of breast mass should be soft, uniform and elastic. Some young women have uneven distribution of mammary glands, and feel the feeling of uneven particles. This is a normal physiological phenomenon, so there is no need to worry about it. But if you find that the new growth of the mass is a single round or irregular shape, hard as stone, less smooth surface, poor activity, rapid growth, we should be particularly vigilant, the possibility of breast cancer is very large, of course, to judge these need rich clinical experience, and need to go to the hospital with some auxiliary examination to make a diagnosis.

Nipple discharge is also one of the common symptoms of breast disease, the incidence is second only to breast mass and breast pain. Usually, bilateral, milk like discharge is often physiological, while unilateral, light yellow or clear water like or bloody discharge needs to be vigilant. In particular, bloody discharge is characterized by bright red, brown, light yellow or brown, of which 50-75% are intraductal papilloma and about 15% are breast cancer. If bloody discharge occurs in postmenopausal women, 75% may be breast cancer.

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This disease is one of the common and frequently occurring diseases in women. It is commonly seen in women aged 25-45 years old. In essence, it is a disorder of normal breast structure caused by physiological hyperplasia and incomplete involution. In our country, cystic changes are rare, mainly glandular hyperplasia, so it is often called "mammary gland hyperplasia". The World Health Organization (who) collectively referred to as "benign breast dysplasia". The risk of malignant transformation of this disease is 2-4 times higher than that of normal women. The clinical symptoms and signs are sometimes mixed with breast cancer.