Health message
With the continuous development of society, people’s work pressure increases, the pace of life becomes fast, some women are overburdened, physically and mentally exhausted, resulting in endocrine disorders, easily caused by breast disease, so keep good habits Oh!
1, maintain a normal weight
2, careful use of hormonal drugs
3, scientific diet
4, maintain a good state of mind
5, let nature take its course and do motherhood and so on. Be a beautiful woman, but also to be a healthy woman!
For women, breasts are like the source of the Yangtze River, so they must be protected. Here, I will do my duty as a doctor to introduce breast health, care and prevention to all of you.
To stop breast cancer, self-examination is most important
Two lines of defense to block breast cancer: self-examination is the most important two lines of defense to block breast cancer.
No. 1 line of defense: monthly self-examination with consistency For gynecological examination, many doctors advocate once a year or once every six months. However, for breast examination, even once every six months is too long. The proper approach is once a month, regular, such as fixed at about 8-10 days after menopause each month, without going to the hospital, self-examination can be done.
Self-examination is also called palpation, the method is one is to feel, one is to see.
It includes several parts
i. i.e. looking into the mirror to see if there are breast lumps and nodules.
two, there is a tumor in the breast, it will squeeze the breast skin, forming a bumpy and wrinkled surface, similar to the orange peel like, thickening of the underarm skin.
iii. abnormal invagination of the nipple.
iv. peeling of the skin within the areola or pain that lasts for weeks.
v. observation of the nipple for fluid exudation, especially blood-like discharge.
Sixth, the color of the skin of the breast from light red to dark red, accompanied by edema, thickening, and increased skin temperature for more than a few weeks
Line of defense #2: You need to go through some essential tests
If you have any of the above symptoms, don’t be paralyzed. It is prudent to go to the hospital promptly and go through a series of tests to find out the true nature of the swelling and abnormality.
Step 1: Check the scope from large to small. With the more obvious symptoms, the doctor’s examination of you starts with a large scope, and never lets go of the chest, abdomen, pelvis, skeletal path, supraclavicular lymph nodes, and axillary lymph nodes; then goes back to the source of the disease, examining the breast and mammary gland, from the healthy part to the onset part, observing whether the bilateral breast is symmetrical, whether there is any abnormality in shape and the inner and outer half of the breast; pressing the areola to see whether there is overflow.
Step 2: X-ray examination. Mammography is a common method for breast cancer diagnosis, which can obviously show lumps or nodular lesions, calcified shadows and skin thickening sign groups, ductal shadow changes, etc. If the calcification points are dense, the possibility of having malignant tumor is higher.
Step 3: Ultrasound imaging examination. The correct rate of ultrasonography for breast cancer diagnosis is 80% to 85%, so usually patients suspected of breast cancer will not miss this examination.
The fourth step: CT examination, which is helpful for localizing breast lesions before biopsy, confirming the preoperative staging of breast cancer, checking whether there are enlarged lymph nodes in the posterior area of the breast, axilla and internal breast, and formulating treatment plan.
Step 5: Tumor marker examination. Tumor markers are cellular tissue components produced, secreted and directly released by tumor cells during the process of cancer transformation. The examination involves carcinoembryonic antigen, ferritin, monoclonal antibody, etc.
Step 6: Biopsy. Although there are many methods of examination, so far only the pathological results obtained from biopsy can be used as the only definite basis for diagnosis. It includes needle aspiration biopsy, excisional biopsy and excisional biopsy.