What are the common symptoms of breast cancer? Palpated: Most common Lumps (hard Poorly defined Fixed location) Axillary lumps Breast lumps Lumps that are not: Fibroids Cysts Hyperplasia. Seen: Abnormal discharge from nipple Ulceration of nipple that does not heal easily Skin indentation Skin edema like orange peel Skin redness like mastitis Examined for: Blood flow signals Certain types of calcifications Characteristic changes of cancer Distant metastases: Bone, liver, lung, brain What are the types of breast cancer? Occult breast cancer Male breast cancer Inflammatory breast cancer Breast cancer during pregnancy Breast cancer during lactation Young breast cancer Pathological types: Invasive ductal carcinoma is the most common, accounting for 70% to 80% or more of all breast cancers. Other types include lobular carcinoma, tubular carcinoma, medullary carcinoma, mucinous carcinoma, and papillary carcinoma. The prognosis of each type varies. What are the current treatment options for breast cancer? Surgery, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, molecular targeted biologic therapy (immunotherapy, adjuvant therapy with Chinese medicine, psychotherapy) Are all breast cancers suitable for surgery? In fact, we still do it every year at the age of 70 and 80. Extremely poor physical condition, extensive distant metastases, malignant tumor. Vital organ dysfunction cannot tolerate general anesthesia surgery. In general, the scope and target population of surgery is relatively lenient. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy makes the feasibility and effect of surgery more guaranteed. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is briefly described here. Is the recurrence rate of breast cancer high? In general, it is not very high and is low compared to many cancers. The current risk of breast cancer recurrence is roughly considered to be 30-40%, and 80% of patients who recur have recurrence within 3 years. A higher density of follow-up examinations within 5 years is usually required. I have met patients who have had recurrence for 30 years and are still alive with lung metastases. Because breast cancer has a relatively good prognosis and a long life expectancy, it can be said that the recurrence rate is accompanied by a lifetime. However: Locally advanced breast cancer Triple negative breast cancer Young breast cancer Patients with clinical stage III or higher breast cancer. Patients with high expression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 HER2 receptor. The risk of recurrence and metastasis is much higher than that of patients with normal breast cancer, and patients with early stage breast cancer. How often should I be reviewed if I have had breast cancer? Every 3-4 months for the first three years, 4-6 months for the fourth and fifth years, and once a year after the sixth year. Visit breast specialist for review. What is the cure rate of breast cancer? In a sense, it is a curable cancer because many elderly breast cancer patients often do not die from breast cancer …… But with years of research, it is found that breast cancer does not talk about cure, it is likely to be accompanied for life, latent for life, and it is not a local disease, but a systemic systemic disease. Of course the cure rate is also related to the nature of the tumor; milder types are easier to cure, while some specific types of breast cancer are very stubborn and intractable. A simple digital description: Stage I 90%. Stage II 70%. Stage III 40-60%.