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The clinical distinction between benign or malignant breast lesions may sometimes be difficult, such as fibrous tumor (fibroadenoma), fat accumulation, inflammatory lumps, infection, or cysts. In pre-menopausal and benign lesions often pass through the early increase, after passing through narrow.

Dr Draw a diagram describing the newly discovered mass often help, mammography or biopsy may be useful. But if you did not find mass, as long as the suspected cancer ,1-2 months later to be re-examined. If the mass persists, there should be breast-ray films and biopsy.

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A new study showed that ultrasound combined with breast x ray photography can improve the diagnosis rate of breast cancer in women at high risk, but at the same time, the false positive rate than x ray photography alone is much higher. Ultrasound combined with x ray photography make the diagnosis rate of breast cancer 28%, but the false positive rate than x ray photography alone three times higher! These women had to accept this unnecessary biopsies.

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Breast X-ray examination is a special X-ray, after passing through breast tissue imaging, in order to find out whether there is abnormal breast tissues, comparing different time X-ray imaging is the early detection of breast cancer, a safe and effective method.

Concrete operation in the process, X-ray emission from the instrument will be issued at least two angles rays, rays through the breast tissue, no vote by the organization to absorb the rays shine on the special X-ray film can show breast imaging, This image is called the breast X-ray photograph. The performance of normal breast tissue as a white, opaque portion (high density), adipose tissue is a black semi-transparent (ie, low density).

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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. Diagnosis of breast cancer many ways, including physical examination, breast X-ray, B-chao, breast duct endoscopy, etc., but the final diagnosis is still dependent on pathological diagnosis.

Biopsy (the biopsy) is to obtain preoperative pathological diagnosis of the most commonly used means, which includes needle biopsy and surgical biopsy in two ways.

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1. Early invasive carcinoma:

(1) an early invasive lobular carcinoma: carcinoma of the basement membrane break through the wall and began to interlobular stromal invasion, it is still confined within the lobule.

(2) an early invasive ductal carcinoma: intraductal carcinoma of the cancer cells break through the basement membrane wall and started budding, to interstitial infiltration.

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Breast fibroma is most common benign tumor of a breast, and good fat in young women. Clinical breast fibroids often seen two cases, one is a simple adenofibroma, one is associated with hyperplasia of the breast fibroma. The former has a smooth surface, the edge of a clear, quality medium, activity degree, can be slipped off the finger palpation and other characteristics; the latter is just palpable and some dew in the proliferation of breast tissue outside the tumor smooth, edge is unclear, its With the proliferation activity of the organization’s activities and events, there is a certain degree of self-limiting, often due to hyperplasia of mammary glands “of its nuclear ebbs and flows with the Xi Nu”, so the tumor can be ebbs and flows with the Xi Nu.

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Breast cancer occurs in pregnant or breast-feeding during the period known as pregnancy, breast-feeding breast cancer. Lactation in clinical breast cancer is relatively rare, but its occurrence coincides with a rational Yousheng breast hypertrophy, resulting in swelling which is often hard to detect, or misdiagnosed as mastitis or a benign mass in delay in treatment and should therefore be attracted sufficient attention.

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Stage is to define the extent of cancer spread method. Stage is very important, it is because you are an overview of the rehabilitation and treatment may depend on your stage of cancer. For example, a period of cancer may be the best surgical treatment, while others the best combined use of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, breast cancer is also true. Breast cancer treatment and prognosis depends largely on the cancer stage and cell type, only to accurately determine the stages in order to take appropriate treatment measures. CT, MRI, scan, bone marrow biopsy, mediastinoscopy, and Blood screening for breast cancer staging.

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Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancy of women, according to statistics, the incidence rate of the body a variety of malignant tumors 7-10% in women, second only to uterine cancer.

What types of breast cancer do? By organizational type points, the type of breast cancer are the following:

1. Type of breast cancer non-invasive cancer: the early stages of breast cancer, when the carcinoma confined to the breast ducts or acini, the basement membrane, said no breakthrough in its non-invasive carcinoma.

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Invasive breast cancer are the main types of breast cancer, this time cancer had ductal or lobular acinar pierced the basement membrane and invade stroma. Invasive breast cancer can be divided into two types:

1. Infiltrating ductal carcinoma: The most common, accounting for about 70% of breast cancer. Tumor ill-defined, gray color quality hardware, showing that radial trabecular, cut with a sense of sand. Microscope, and the arrangement of cancer cells varied forms, often showed solid cord or a group arranged massive, non-glandular cavity structure, so that solid cancer. According to cancer, the ratio of the essence and interstitial different solid cancer can be divided into pure carcinoma, scirrhous carcinoma and atypical medullary carcinoma are collectively referred to as invasive ductal carcinoma.

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