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The cause of nipple discharge is divided into: external factors and internal mammary milk factors.

Breast cancer patients, 5% ~ 10% had nipple discharge, but the only symptom nipple discharge is only 1%. Often as a single tube of discharge, characteristics can be varied, such as the bloody, serous, watery, or colorless. Breast cancer primary in the form of large ducts or ductal carcinoma in situ is to merge with nipple discharge were more common, such as malignant intraductal papilloma, papillary carcinoma is covered by renewable eczema have nipple discharge. It is noteworthy that although most people think little of breast cancer associated with nipple discharge, and discharge even though there were almost the same time in the event of lumps or after the emergence of mass are not accompanied by little consideration to cancer. However, recent studies have shown that certain breast cancer, nipple discharge, especially in ductal carcinoma in situ of the earlier clinical manifestations, but also in obvious lumps do not form before it can stand alone.

Symptoms of breast cancer with nipple discharge:

Nipple discharge Yousheng rationality and pathologic distinction. Physiological nipple discharge were mainly seen in pregnant and lactating women. Pathological nipple discharge refers to the non-physiological state of the breast duct fluid secretion. The latter commonly referred to as Ji Zhi. Nipple discharge may be caused due to a variety of breast diseases, but also easier for patients be noted that about 10% of the clinical treatment of patients come to one of the main symptoms of a variety of breast diseases, its incidence rate second only in breast lumps and breast pain.

Nipple discharge their physical properties can be divided into: bloody. Serum samples. Serous. Water. Purulent. Milk samples and so on. In which serous. Water samples and milk-like discharge is more common, bloody discharge discharge only 10% of cases. Lesions in the large tube, the discharge Duocheng bloody; in the smaller catheter, it can for the short bloody or serous; if the blood stays too long in the catheter can be showed dark brown; duct inflammation infection, it can mix there is pus, liquefied necrotic tissue was water available. milk sample or brown liquid; mammary duct ectasia usually is serous fluid. Most of bloody discharge caused by benign lesions, there is a small number of breast cancer was also bloody. Physiological nipple discharge, mostly bilateral nature of the milk samples of their discharge or water samples Changcheng.