When it comes to breast cancer, everyone can't help but think of the "Lin sister" Chen Xiaoxu.
In addition to Chen Xiaoxu, Taiwanese singers Asan and Yao Beina... Young women are all breast cancer, and their lives have stopped in half a cut.
The data show that breast cancer is currently the leading cause of cancer death in young women, accounting for 23% of cancer deaths in women aged about 20-39 years.
According to the national cancer statistics released by the National Cancer Center and 2019, the current new cases of breast cancer in the country account for 17.10% of the incidence of malignant tumors in women, ranking first in the incidence of malignant tumors in women, with an annual incidence of about 304,000.
Most breast cancer patients are found to be advanced
Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the breast area, a malignant lesion caused by the uncontrolled proliferation of breast epithelial cells.
99% of breast cancer patients are women, compared to only 1% of men. The incidence and mortality of breast cancer is very high, and most patients are found to be in the middle and advanced stages of breast cancer.
At this time, the cancer cells have begun to metastasize to distant distances, so that the patient's other organs and systems are subjected to a series of violations, which are more harmful to health and life.
Breast cancer detection is a cause of the middle and advanced stages, and is related to the neglect of early symptoms.
What abnormalities can occur in the body after breast cancer?
First, the breast is abnormal
After suffering from early breast cancer, patients will have a series of abnormal manifestations at the breast, the most obvious of which is that there will be painless lumps in the patient's breasts and some painless lumps in the lateral part of the upper breast.
The mass is hard and not easily pushed. When the patient is pressed, there is no pain, and there will be no discomfort in daily life.
It is precisely this painless mass that is easy for patients to ignore, resulting in the consequences of breast cancer once found to be advanced.
In addition to painless lumps, significant abnormal changes can also occur in the skin of the patient's breasts. For example, there will be orange peel-like changes in the skin, or satellite nodules and some dimples.
The cause of these symptoms is a phenomenon caused by a tumor within the breast that causes the skin of the breast to be violated when it grows.
In addition, the patient's nipples will also have some abnormal manifestations. When the tumor grows in the breast, it will cause the nipple and the area of the areola to be invaded, so that the nipple is pulled, resulting in a situation where the nipple is tilted to one side.
There are also cases where the nipple is directly sunken into the back of the areola. These symptoms are usually accompanied by nipple discharge. Fluids are generally bloody or aqueous.
2. Lymphadenopathy in the armpits
Patients will have a very obvious lymphadenopathy in the armpits, which is a symptom that is more obvious in most early breast cancer patients.
In the early stages of the disease, there are painless, enlarged lymph nodes in the ipsilateral armpit area of the patient, which are active and relatively small and relatively small.
This is because when the cancer cells fall off, the surrounding lymphatic vessels are violated and blocked, resulting in a phenomenon caused.
However, as the disease progresses, the enlarged lymph nodes will become more and more numerous, and the mobility will become more and more active. Eventually all the lymph nodes will fuse into one large lymph node and will be fixed without any mobility.
In addition, metastatic enlarged lymph nodes may also occur at the patient's clavicle site and at the lateral axillary area, which are generally not painful.
Does frequent "self-touching" help detect breast cancer early?
Unfortunately, the answer is no.
In the past breast cancer prevention guidelines, most of them also mentioned breast self-examination, but with the development of medicine, the limitations of breast self-examination have become increasingly prominent.
Breast self-examination not only fails to reduce cancer mortality, but may cause unnecessary anxiety, nervousness and over-medical treatment in women, and there will be unnecessary overexpluation when seeking medical treatment, such as invasive breast mass puncture.
Therefore, compared with "self-touch", it is better to "touch it", that is, to let professional screening equipment, such as molybdenum, magnetic resonance, etc., rely solely on clinical breast examination for cancer screening, which is of little significance.
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