The initial estimation of whether a hard mass is cancerous or not is generally based on its texture, contour, surface, mobility, complications, and whether it is accompanied by enlarged lymph nodes.
1. Texture: invasive malignant mass with fibroplasia usually has hard texture.
2. Outline: malignant masses often show infiltrative growth, invade the surrounding tissues, and have unclear outlines and boundaries; some malignant masses may also push out the surrounding tissues to form a pseudo-circumscription; benign masses often have a circumscription, and have clear boundaries with the surrounding area.
3. Surface: malignant masses often have irregular surface; benign masses often have smooth surface.
4. Mobility: malignant masses often infiltrate the surrounding tissues, so the mobility is often small and difficult to push.
5. Complications: malignant tumors are often accompanied by hemorrhage, ulcer, necrosis formation.
6. Lymph nodes: malignant tumors are prone to metastasis, and enlarged lymph nodes can be touched when they metastasize to the surface lymph nodes.
Judge the benign and malignant hard lumps can not be based only on the results of palpation, pathology biopsy is the “gold standard”, so found that the body has hard lumps, should go to the regular hospital in a timely manner, a clear diagnosis, and then symptomatic treatment.