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Nipple change is an important aspect of clinical diagnosis of breast cancer is one. Due to infiltration and destruction of breast cancer cells, so that occurrence of breast duct and ligament shortening, hardening and other changes, so that the cancer involves the direction of the nipple retraction, fixed. This is also the clinical detection of breast cancer, one of the common signs. Eczema-like cancer in the nipple to form scaling, erosion, ductal adenocarcinoma can be formed nipple discharge.

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Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancy of women. Breast cancer morbidity and mortality are in Western Europe, North America, on top, while in Asia, Latin America, Africa the lowest, but in recent years, statistics show that there is an increasing trend.

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Is usually found in patients with their first – a symptom is a painless mass, generally located beneath the areola, just the male breast tissue concentration of the tumor grow faster.

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(1) Symptoms

Early often without obvious clinical symptoms, or only showed slight breast pain, the nature of mostly dull pain or a pain, a small number of needle-like pain, Changcheng intermittent and limited to lesions at the pain does not change with the menstrual cycle. To late neural invasion of cancer pain is more severe when can radiate into the ipsilateral shoulder, arm.

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1. Clinical manifestations
(1) painless lumps: a painless breast lump is often the main treatment in patients with symptoms of urge.
(2) Nipple discharge: discharge can be a colorless, milky white, yellow, brown, bloody, etc.; can be adduced in water samples, blood, serous or purulent; discharge capacity will be increased as little more than an interval of time inconsistency.
(3) the nipple and areola abnormalities: nipple flat, retraction, depression, until the total reduction into the areola, the nipple can not see. Sometimes the entire breast elevation, on both sides of the nipple not in the same horizontal plane. Nipple erosion is also typical symptoms of Paget’s disease.

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Is usually found in patients with their first – a breast cancer symptom is a painless mass, generally located beneath the areola, just the male breast tissue concentration of the tumor grow faster. When patients seek treatment, the tumor is not the only symptom of breast cancer. Nipple discharge more likely to have breast cancer in men. In addition, nipple retraction, skin changes, also more common than breast cancer in women with breast cancer characteristics. We found that men with newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, about half of the axillary lymph nodes can reach.

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Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancy of women worldwide each year about more than one million women suffer from breast cancer. Is a high incidence of breast cancer in women age 40-50 years old. Men can also develop breast cancer, but male breast cancer than females to be less 100 times. Breast cancer symptoms, according to the disease sooner or later, and the different pathological types, clinical manifestations not the same.

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Breast examination should first observe the development of the mammary gland of both sides of the breast is symmetrical, the size is similar, whether the same level on both sides of the nipple, the nipple whether there is retracting depression; nipple and areola whether the erosion, the breast skin color and how, with or without edema and orange peel-like change, whether there is swelling and other inflammatory manifestations, breast area is superficial venous engorgement, etc..

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Early breast cancer refers to the mass is less than 2 cm, no lymph node metastasis situation. The main clinical manifestations:

1. There is no discomfort: As a very small mass which are the intangible, easily be overlooked. So just because there is no abnormal symptoms and give up the breast examination.

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The normal low level of male breast development, according to statistics, the current domestic clinical male patients with breast cancer accounts for about 1%, mostly the elderly. Since there is no male breast lobular and acinar’s development, so much smaller breasts than women, but also because of the male breast tissue is weak, in the event of breast cancer, it is easy to spread all around, without too long to be able to spread to the breast skin and muscle tissue, which is why male breast cancer patients are often the initial treatment period when the disease is already advanced on one of the reasons.

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