The incidence of female breast cancer in modern society is increasing year by year, and the reasons for this are mainly the following.
Susceptibility factors
The risk of breast cancer is significantly higher with the increase of body mass index, westernized diet and weight gain before and after menopause. Family genetic factors, height, and hormone replacement therapy users. Researchers from the American Epidemiological Association, through a survey of 62,000 menopausal women, claimed that there is a close relationship between excessive obesity and breast cancer, with a 30 kg increase in body weight doubling the chance of developing the disease. Breast Cancer
Environmental Factors
A retrospective analysis by the Cold Spring Harbor Institute in the United States showed that there are 216 compounds associated with breast cancer in substances that women are exposed to in their daily lives, and 29 of these potential carcinogens are produced in large quantities. These compounds are widely distributed in household products such as, cosmetics, gasoline, pharmaceuticals, daily necessities, and others. Furniture and paints and artificial leather are also volatilizing harmful substances all around us.
There was a report on Chen Xiaoxu: due to the radioactive substance of marble, the body was exposed to radiation for a long time, which eventually stimulated the lack of cancer suppressing cells and directly led to the overgrowth of heterogeneous growth cells and the formation of tumors of the endocrine system. It cannot be said that this is a factor of substance, but under long-term radiation will definitely promote the generation of breast cancer or other tumors.
Personal lifestyle habits
Some women use some hormone replacement drugs in order to delay aging, some women use breast enlargement products containing estrogen for a long time, or do not exercise, take oral contraceptive drugs, etc., causing endocrine hormone imbalance in the body, which is also a high risk factor for breast cancer.
Age Factor
The age of onset of breast cancer in Chinese women is around 45-55 years old, and there is a trend of advancement. In many studies conducted by medical experts, it is found that women who have early menstruation and late menopause are more likely to develop breast cancer, but the overall trend is that the prevalence of breast cancer increases according to age.
Mental factors
Depression is one of the four major global diseases. According to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization, more than 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression, and nearly 100 million in China. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Public Health Health Institute studied 2,017 depressed people over 13 years and found that patients with major depression were more likely to develop breast cancer than other women. More than 80 percent of women with depression suffer from varying degrees of breast disease, and depressed women are five times more likely to have breast cancer than normal. This is related to the fact that life is stressful and work is stressful.
Factors of childbirth and breastfeeding
Late childbirth, late marriage, not breastfeeding, etc., having children after the age of 35, and not having breastfed or given birth over the age of 40. There is evidence that this is also one of the risk factors for breast cancer. Staying up late, not exercising, smoking, drinking alcohol, and having multiple abortions are also associated with breast cancer.
Benign Disease Factors
The relationship between benign breast disease and breast cancer has always been a topic of discussion.
Benign breast disease is a general term for a variety of breast diseases. They can be divided into nonproliferative and proliferative lesions according to their cancer risk, with the latter having an increased risk of cancer in patients with severe atypical hyperplasia. Therefore, not all benign lesions are cancerous.
Therefore, the next breast cancer patient, who will fall, is not a cause, but a combination of factors. Stop saying that breast cancer is due to heredity, childlessness, staying up late, a single cause, it is caused by multiple causes, gang work.
There are three ways to detect breast cancer.
1. Physical examination
Normal physical examination is done once a year, so regular medical institutions and breast specialty clinics can detect breast cancer early and give appropriate advice. Therefore, the normal physical examination combined with breast ultrasound examination can detect breast cancer.
2. Self-examination
If every woman can know when to check her breast and how to check her breast like doctors do, and be able to detect problems early and seek medical attention in time, this is a blessing for every family and society.
3.Unintentional detection
Because most early breast cancers do not have painful conditions, most women never go to the hospital to check their breasts without any abnormal feeling; and breast cancers detected by physical examination are also limited to those who are concerned about their health. Most breast cancers are detected by themselves and then seek medical attention, but they are already in the middle and late stages of breast cancer when they are found!
The detection rate of breast cancer through ultrasound in physical examination is slightly higher, among which: breast MRI, mammogram and ultrasound have a detection rate of 97.7%, 76.8% and 81.4% respectively.
How to perform self-examination?
(1): Look Stand in front of a mirror with upper limbs naturally relaxed and observe whether both breasts are symmetrical, whether there is any abnormality in bilateral breast shape and whether bilateral nipples are on the same level. The skin of the breast is not sunken or deformed, the skin of both breasts is not red, swollen, orange peel changes, the areola of both nipples is normal or not sunken, squeeze the nipples for secretions and fluid overflow.
(b): Touch, the correct method of palpation: touch the other breast with one hand, with the belly of the finger at the same level as the palm of the hand.
In a clockwise direction, press the breast from above, outside, below, inside, and under the armpit in five directions to touch for swelling, and finally squeeze the nipple for overflow and feel for any changes under the skin.
(c): press, press if the swelling is touched, press whether the texture of the swelling is hard and tough, whether it is active. Whether the boundary is clear and whether it is painful. Feel the change of breast tissue deep in the skin.
(d): change, in the same order and in the same way, check the other breast.
The timing of self-examination is recommended for women from post-pubertal to childbearing age: self-examination is performed 7-10 days after menstruation is clean, as this is when female hormones are in a stable state and have the least impact on the breast. Menopausal or post-menopausal women: Self-examination should be performed on a fixed day each month.