Occult breast cancer refers to no symptoms and the clinical examination (visual examination and palpation) failed to find breast cancer, but also considered to be benign clinical examination of breast cancer. Occult breast cancer is divided into early breast cancer without metastasis, and has been transferred hidden hidden advanced breast cancer, the latter failed to find the original clinical lesion.
About 46% of occult breast cancer can be X-ray examination and found that its X-ray findings and non-occult breast cancer have little difference between X-ray findings. Occult breast cancer as the most characteristic X-ray micro-calcification, or dense shadow. Of suspected cases, a continuous periodic review process, if the partial emergence of a new dense shadows, it is early diagnosis of breast cancer in a highly accurate X-ray features.
X-ray examination should not only make a diagnosis of breast cancer, but also to locate on the carcinoma, if necessary, physical inspections of suspicious sites Zuohuo, such as biopsy, to confirm the diagnosis. Occult breast cancer cells in malignant breast tissue from the beginning, to the palpable mass, you may need several months to several years time.
