Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie had her breasts removed to prevent breast cancer, which has attracted a lot of attention. Recently, at the Quanzhou Symposium on Standardized Comprehensive Breast Cancer Treatment hosted by Quanzhou Medical Association and Quanzhou No.1 Hospital, experts believe that it is not 100% safe to “cut off breast” to prevent cancer, and it is better to remove it than to have regular checkups. The Hollywood actress Angelina? The company has confirmed on May 14 this year that she carries a defective gene called BRCA1, which increases her risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Doctors estimate that Jolie’s chances of developing breast and ovarian cancer are 87 percent and 50 percent, respectively. To reduce her risk of breast cancer, she underwent a bilateral mastectomy. Professor Pan Qunxiong, a member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Anti-Cancer Association and vice president of the Quanzhou Oncology Association, said there are two main types of bilateral mastectomy: total mastectomy, which is the most traditional way to remove the entire breast, and breast-conserving mastectomy, which is a total subcutaneous mastectomy that preserves the nipple and areola. The latter is what Julie chose. Professor Pan also pointed out that, from what we know so far, very few local people have had mastectomies to prevent cancer. If someone in the immediate family has had breast cancer, her family members are 2-4 times more likely to develop cancer than those without the genetic predisposition. For people with specific familial breast cancer potential, there is no need to perform prophylactic mastectomy due to overwhelming concern, after all, the concept in China is different from Europe and America, and each individual situation is different, but screening for breast disease must be given more attention than the general population. Dr. Chen Depo of the First Hospital of China, who was present at the conference, believes that “breast removal” is not as effective as regular checkups to prevent cancer. If there is no sufficient reason, there is no need to choose preventive mastectomy to reduce the risk of cancer. What’s more, even with preventive mastectomy, there is no guarantee that you will not get cancer 100% of the time, but only that you will reduce the risk of cancer. Dr. Chen reminded that breast diseases can be detected as early as possible with regular checkups, and it is crucial for the treatment of breast cancer to insist on medical checkups and early detection, and women over 35 years old can go to the hospital once a year for breast ultrasound and mammogram. At the same time, breast self-examination should be done once a month, the best time is 9 to 11 days after menstruation. This is because estrogen has the least effect on the breast during these days and the breast is softer and easier to find lesions. Women who have stopped menstruating can fix one day a month for self-examination. Related Links Early symptoms of breast cancer can be detected through careful self-examination, mainly paying attention to the following items. 1. Skin changes: Superficial veins in the breast are obvious, with dimple-like and orange peel-like skin. In some patients, the skin of the breast becomes sunken, hard and thickened. The symptom of advanced breast cancer is superficial ulceration and formation of ulcer or cauliflower-like neoplasm. 2. Nipple areola changes: nipple flattening, sunken, retracted, or even nipple sinking into the areola, resulting in areola deformation. Breast lumps: 95% of breast cancer patients have lumps, and most of them do not feel pain. The lumps are irregular in shape, generally hard in texture, movable and usually located in the upper part of the breast. 4. Nipple overflow: breast cancer with overflow accounts for 1.3%-7% of all breast cancers, and it is mostly seen in intraductal and papillary cancers. The early symptoms of breast cancer are mainly bloody overflow, but plasma, plasma blood, watery, etc. are also present. Most of them are early intraductal carcinoma and papillary carcinoma, and most of them are found to be accompanied by overflow after the lump is found first.