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As a check means to breast X-ray examination for breast cancer in mass screening techniques can reduce the risk of breast cancer, 20-40% annual mortality.

However, the sensitivity of breast X-ray dense breast in the gland is relatively low, so a separate application of X-ray photography as a method of checking, reliability, there are some problems.

MRI of soft tissue and high resolution and sensitivity higher than the breast X-ray can be three-dimensional observation of lesions, not only to provide morphological characteristics of lesions, but also provides the use of dynamic contrast-enhanced lesions in the hemodynamic situation of the breast disease diagnosis and detection of lesions reached a new height, has been widely used in the early diagnosis of breast cancer.

Breast diseases are common diseases and frequently-occurring disease of women, breast cancer is the world’s women, a common malignancy, its incidence rate increasing every year. According to statistics, approximately 250 million people worldwide each year diagnosed with breast cancer, 50 million people died of breast cancer. Early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment are key to reducing breast cancer mortality.

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General breast self-examination once a month, there are periods of women’s best clearance time should be 9-11 days after the monthly menstrual cramps checks, because the relatively soft breasts at this time, easy to find disease, menopausal women who have been free to choose any day a month, regular inspections. Generally carried out in the following three cases of breast self-test is more convenient for practical:

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Australian scientists tested 503 individuals hair, confirm that there are 200 people with breast cancer. They found that the use of hair testing, fast and quasi-. But scientists still believe that the need for further tests to determine the accuracy of the diagnosis of breast cancer approach.

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Mammary gland is located in the organs of the body surface, when the lesions occur more easily when the medical examination, while women’s breast is an important endocrine organ, in the life of different periods and at different times of the menstrual cycle, the breast can have different change, and sometimes may mask the presence of malignant tumors, and sometimes he may be mistaken for normal changes in the tumor, so detailed and accurate breast examination helps identify breast cancer as well as the identification of benign and malignant breast changes.

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Check generally use the seat, the patient be checked by basing Ershi arm armpit natural relaxation, to facilitate inspection. Supraclavicular lymph node check a doctor touch thumb commonly used in patients with bilateral supraclavicular fossa. In addition to clinical breast examination, the women of all ages can learn breast self-examination, which is a simple and inexpensive means of early detection of breast cancer, but require some training. Usually a monthly breast self-test to check the time of pre-menopausal women should choose to menstrual cramps after the first 9 ~ 11 days, at this time is mainly endocrine hormone estrogen minimal impact on breast, breast in a relatively static period of the most vulnerable to find breast abnormalities; post-menopausal women should choose easy to remember the time, such as the first day of each month; breastfeeding breast lumps found in breast-feeding should be made only after the cessation of an inspection.

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In fact a variety of tumor stimulation, including general mechanical extrusion, surgery would lead to shedding of tumor cells and enter the blood circulation, but this does not necessarily shift, because the body’s immune system will quickly kill them. Study found that breast cancer is mainly the transfer of the body with the tumor and the environment per se factors.

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Compared with surgical biopsy, fine needle aspiration biopsy of normal tissue damage to a small, no scars, the patient does not require anesthesia, and the costs are relatively low. The most important thing is part of core needle biopsy can make patients with benign breast lesions removed an unnecessary surgery.

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Why pathological diagnosis is important?

Breast cancer surgery, especially radical surgery on the patient’s physical and mental is a heavy blow, so preoperative diagnosis is breast cancer surgery is an important principle. Examination of the above-mentioned method of breast diseases, including physical examination, breast X-ray, B-chao, breast duct endoscopy and so there is a certain false positive and false-negative result, ultimately still have to rely on a clear pathological diagnosis for Benign and Malignant Lesions properties. Another role of the pathological diagnosis is clear and the pathological lesion types and characteristics, so as to further select the appropriate treatment programs to provide a basis.

Preoperative pathological diagnosis was the most commonly used methods include two kinds of cytological diagnosis and biopsy.

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Mucinous

Common in postmenopausal women, older, slower tumor growth, metastasis night.

Pathology: tumor large, clear boundaries, shape irregular, jelly-like cut surface; microscope, interstitial rich mucus, cells divided into island, a small vacuoles within the cytoplasm, the nuclear small and round, split less deeply stained, often biased towards one side.

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