Breast cancer, a common tumor considered to be the “killer of the face”, is receiving more and more attention. The battle for breast cancer has been waged, and both women themselves and society as a whole are paying close attention to it. At the same time, many rumors have been spread. The following is a list of common misconceptions about breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Lobular hyperplasia is a precursor of breast cancer?
Most of the women will have lobular hyperplasia when they enter the age of 20-30. For this reason, many young women are worried that lobular hyperplasia will become cancerous.
Lobular hyperplasia is not a disease, but a physiological change in the breast. As we know, the breast is regulated by estrogen and progesterone secreted by the ovaries, so the breast will grow and shrink cyclically with the menstrual cycle. Estrogen causes the glandular ducts of the breast to proliferate, while progesterone causes them to recede. Therefore, the breast is regulated by estrogen and progesterone every month, resulting in the process of breast enlargement and rejuvenation. It can be said that most of the regular swelling and pain caused by breast enlargement and hyperplasia are the outward manifestation of physiological changes. Of course, endocrine can also be changed by certain conditions of the body, such as fatigue, psychological state, work exertion and other factors.
The chance of mammary gland hyperplasia becoming cancerous is very low. Mammary gland hyperplasia is a common benign change in women of childbearing age. Generally speaking, the majority of mammary gland hyperplasia will not develop after a certain stage. Only a very small number of highly proliferative diseases, especially atypical hyperplasia, may become cancerous under the action of internal and external factors.
If you have a lobe enlargement, you should consider having an annual ultrasound examination and, if necessary, a mammogram to improve the effectiveness of treatment.
Nodules can be eliminated by massage? NO!
Many women will find the word “nodules” in their medical reports when they are examined. For this reason, they always hope to find a way to eliminate “nodules”, so some beauty salons advertise that breast massage can cure breast disease, capturing the “hearts” of many women. In fact, in the opinion of breast tumor specialists, this behavior is not only ineffective, but also crisis-ridden.
In fact, in many beauty salons, you can hear the propaganda that through massage, the hyperplasia or nodules on the breast can be rubbed off and the chest ducts and lymph can be unblocked to help detoxify the body. In fact, there is no medical basis for this! Women can regularly massage their breasts to check themselves for lumps and breast cancer, however, there is no evidence that breast massage can prevent breast cancer. On the contrary, if you do have breast cancer, massage will instead cause the cancer cells to spread and metastasize out. Not only breast cancer, lumps that appear in any part of the body for a short period of time without painful symptoms are not recommended to be massaged casually. It is medically proven that too much massage on malignant tumors rich in blood vessels can accelerate cancer cells into the blood system, which has an increased risk of metastasis.
In addition, the so-called breast massage will use some essential oils, which may also contain some hormones and chemical preparations, long-term, large amounts of use will increase the risk of breast cancer.
The “Dinky” family is not harmful to the body?
Some career-oriented women are often easy to be targeted by breast cancer. The incidence of breast cancer is significantly higher in women who are celibate, or who are unmarried, unpregnant or have their first child older than 30 years of age than in women who are normally married. Studies have shown that people with breast cancer in their immediate family are 2.4 times more at risk than young women with a negative family history. Also, numerous epidemiological surveys have shown that women who have not had children have a higher risk of breast cancer than those who have had children, and the younger the age of a woman’s first normal pregnancy, the lower the risk of breast cancer.
Some of the risk factors for breast cancer in Chinese women are consistent with those in high-income countries. Some of the same risk factors as in the West include reproductive and hormonal factors such as long menstrual life (early menarche or delayed menopause), never having had children, delayed age at first birth, and limited breastfeeding.
For this group of “dinky” women, we recommend that women over the age of 40 have a breast exam, ultrasound, and mammogram once every two years. If financially possible, more advanced tests such as breast MRI can accurately detect early lesions when there are no “clues” of breast cancer. With standardized, scientific, and effective early diagnosis strategies, many patients are able to detect breast cancer at the first instance, which is beyond the touch of the hand, thus gaining valuable time for treatment.