What is the relationship between nipple discharge and breast cancer?

  Nipple overflow is one of the three major symptoms of breast disease, along with breast pain and breast lumps. Nipple overflow is a common breast disease, accounting for 5%-8% of outpatient visits for breast diseases, and can be divided into double breast overflow and single breast overflow, and multi-pore overflow and single-pore overflow. From the nature of the overflow, it can be divided into milk-like, plasma-like and bloody overflow, and from the cause, it can be caused by systemic and local factors. The most clinically significant would be the single-bore single-porous overflow, in which 90% of patients are caused by intraductal tumors, most of which are intraductal papillomas, and of course breast cancer. If nipple discharge is detected, it can be examined at a specialist hospital, usually by fiberoptic ductoscopy. Fiberoptic ductoscopy is performed on an outpatient basis and allows for a qualitative and localized diagnosis that is non-invasive and less painful.