It is common to hear about breast nodules and breast cysts during medical checkups, what is it? Some patients find breast nodules during physical examinations, and after consulting with several doctors they confuse themselves, some doctors say it is a tumor, some say it is a nodule, and some say it is a hyperplasia. So what exactly is it? In fact, the so-called breast lumps, breast lesions, breast tumors, and breast nodules are all just different names for the things that grow on the breast. If you want to make a definite diagnosis of what is growing on your breast, the only way to confirm the diagnosis is to send it to pathology after surgical biopsy. However, not all nodules require surgical biopsy, so whether the nodule needs surgery or not is determined by various tests and the doctor’s diagnosis. Is the nodule more likely to be benign or malignant? Is it necessary to take a biopsy? Therefore, what do the words “breast nodule” and “breast cyst” mean in your question? The answer is not really in one or two sentences, each patient’s situation is different, we have to go to the hospital to let the doctor to make a diagnosis. Not all the nodules you can feel are problematic, some of them you can feel a big lump by yourself, but it is actually a normal gland, while some lumps are very small and you can’t feel them by yourself, but they are already breast cancer, so we don’t need to be too nervous when we have breast nodules, we have to go to a professional hospital and let the doctor see them. Do I have to undergo surgery if I need to biopsy a breast lump? No, this is not necessarily the case. Currently, most of the patients who need biopsy in our hospital use minimally invasive breast biopsy to biopsy the lumps and remove them completely at the same time. The mass is removed and open surgery is avoided, and a clear diagnosis is made. Minimally invasive surgery is not required unless the patient is not suitable for minimally invasive surgery due to some reasons such as inappropriate size or location of the mass. Minimally invasive mastectomy has the advantages of accurate puncture, small trauma, simple operation, safety, small post-operative scar, and few complications, etc. All breast tumors within 75px can be removed and biopsied through minimally invasive surgery. When it comes to breast diseases, breast cancer may be the one that people are afraid of, can you tell us about the incidence of breast cancer and the minimally invasive treatment of breast diseases? Breast cancer is a common malignant tumor that endangers women’s physical and mental health. Since the late 1970s, the incidence of breast cancer has been ranked first among female tumors worldwide and is increasing by 2% every year. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer has become the most important task of the mammography department. With the development of breast cancer screening, more and more benign breast diseases and inaccessible breast masses are also discovered. In the past, patients with breast abscesses had to return to the breast and had to be drained by incision, which was very painful, but now we have breast abscess puncture to avoid surgery, and even surgical drainage is done by draining with a tube, which greatly reduces the pain of patients and most of them do not need to return to the breast. Most patients do not need to return to the breast. With the development of minimally invasive treatment, about 10 cases of carcinoma in situ are detected every year, which is a particularly early stage of breast cancer and a clinically curable type of breast cancer. Thus, our minimally invasive treatment plays a significant role in the early detection of breast cancer.