Breast cancer (breast cancer) took first place among all malignancies in women (about 23% of all cancers) and has a pronounced upward trend. It develops on the background of the so-called precancerous diseases, which include mastopathy and fibroadenoma.
Mastopatia - the pathological state of the mammary gland caused by disorders of hormonal regulation. The most common disease of the breast occurs in women 30-40 years. If the normal soreness in the breast notes before menstruation, when you constantly worried about mastitis, it may also be discharge from the nipple. Painful, sometimes even soft to the touch of mammary glands. When mastitis in breast tumor nodules appear to slightly denser breast tissue. Particularly noticeable, they (along with increased pain) in the premenstrual period, and after months of decline again until complete disappearance. In the future there are more serious changes in breast tissue. When focal mastitis need surgical intervention. For clinical data, among patients with focal mastopathy who refuse surgery, breast cancer developed in 4 times more frequently than among the general female population.
The girls, young women may have nodal formation of a benign nature - fibroadenoma. This is clearly delineated dense rounded nodules with a smooth surface. They can easily shift into the breast tissue, sometimes multiple. Mammary glands are an integral part of the reproductive (fertility) system and responsive to all its changes, along with her developed, operated and fade. Probably, many women have noticed that these changes occur not only in terms of age, pregnancy, breast-feeding period, and during each menstrual cycle, during which the maintenance of female sex hormones in the blood evenly. Shortly before menstruation glands swell and become more sensitive, and after menstruation, all these sensations disappear. All these phenomena are normal, physiological.
In the presence of inflammation uterus, cystic degeneration of the ovaries of female sex hormones increases disrupted cyclicity in their selection. This negatively affects the mammary glands. These tissues appear small brushes, which merge with each other. Around brushes grows connective tissue. So there is disease of the breast in the breast.
The normal function of mammary glands – the best prevention of precancerous diseases and cancer. A woman should always keep the first pregnancy and childbirth have. Interruption of first pregnancy often leads to inflammation of the uterus, sterility, which in turn disrupts the hormonal metabolism. Favorably affects the function of mammary glands repeated pregnancies, prolonged breast-feeding (up to a year), breast, non-abortion. Abortion is not only terminate the pregnancy, but also causes regression of glandular cells in the mammary glands. As a result, they formed high-density areas, which may develop breast cancer.
Proved that in areas where the number of abortions is minimal, having prolonged breast-feeding and frequent large families, breast cancer is rarely recorded, and vice versa. On the balance of sex hormones in a woman’s body, and, consequently, on the condition of the breast has a definite influence mode of sexual activity. This balance is maintained with periodic flow in a woman’s male sex hormones during sexual intercourse. Among the seemingly full health woman usually finds herself in the mammary gland seal. The tumor grows slowly in size. If it is located near the nipple, the nipple is drawn, can be spotting from it.Soon in the armpit appear dense knots – a tumor metastasizes to the lymph paths in the axillary lymph nodes. In this situation especially dangerous waiting attitude: "Look, what would happen next," If not itself held, go to the doctor. " All these changes are generally very little concern to the patient, do not interfere with her to live, work, and many women can not even pay attention to them, and if they pay, then do not give them special value, postponing a visit to the doctor.
Initial symptoms of breast cancer is really very small, they almost do not bother the woman and forget to drive away the thought of them easily. But time passes and these symptoms are increasing, new, more pronounced changes, which significantly disturb the patient. Observed deformation of the breast, indrawing of the skin, swelling, and soon there are metastases to nearby lymph nodes. Expanding and increasing in size, the tumor penetrates into the surrounding tissue: skin, tissue, fascia, ribs, appear in great pain. Woman forced to go to the doctor, but treatment at this point is often ineffective. Many opportunities are lost forever, the difficult treatment and its results uncertain.
If treatment is started in stage I breast cancer, a persistent cure is achieved in more than 90% of cases, in II – 60% in III – only 40% and stage IV – is even lower.
Early diagnosis can save your breasts!
Breast self-test may allow to detect cancer at an early stage, and this may mean less defaced surgery. The difference may lie in more or less interference, or even in the choice between the removal of nodes or the entire breast. Thus, most experts believe that every woman over age 20 should perform the following recommendations:
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