Because cancer is a very feared disease, breast cancer immediately comes to mind when a mass is mentioned in the breast. In addition, we see that the patient who feels a mass in the breast has a serious anxiety due to the fear of cancer. However, this fear is unfounded, because the incidence of benign breast diseases and associated severe pain in women may be higher than cancer.
What Do We Understand When Benign Breast Diseases is Said?
Since breast cancer develops in one of eight women during her lifetime, cancer diagnosis and treatment emerges as a more popular topic when breast diseases are mentioned. However, breast diseases that we encounter more frequently in our daily practice are benign breast diseases and breast pain that develops due to some of them.
When we talk about benign breast diseases, the first things that come to mind are breast cysts, fibroadenomas, phyllodes tumor, intraductal papilloma, ductectasis, fat necrosis and breast infections. Breast cysts are the most common lesions of the breast. Because they are so common, they are considered variations of normal rather than a disease today.
How to Detect Benign Breast Changes?
Clinical examination, imaging methods or control The first symptoms are detected with breast self-examination taught to patients.
The most common findings in breast diseases are palpation of a breast mass, pain, nipple discharge and changes in the breast skin. Mammography and ultrasonography are most commonly used in breast imaging, biopsy is performed for definitive diagnosis so that it is certain whether the breast disease is benign or not.
“Fibroadenomas are benign tumors of the breast. Fibredenoma On ultrasound and mammography, it can be seen as oval-shaped and well-contoured. Definitive diagnosis is made by needle biopsy.”
Fibroadenomas
It is a benign tumor of the breast. Transformation to cancer is not expected. Most of the time, the radiological image is sufficient to make the diagnosis. In case of radiological or clinical suspicion, the diagnosis is made by needle biopsy or surgical biopsy. If the patient's close relatives have cancer, the fibroadenoma is large in size. If there is growth or shape change in the follow-up, if it causes deformity in the breast that creates an aesthetic defect, and the patient does not want to follow up, it is surgically removed. It is recommended that the mass be followed up with the help of a rhinoplasty and surgical removal if growth or shape change is detected in the follow-up. Breast tissue never maintains the same structure throughout life, so we recommend our patients to come for control at regular intervals, so that a newly formed cancerous tissue will be diagnosed and treated at an early stage, so the success rates can increase.
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