2011/07/15

Early symptoms of breast cancer

Patient information: Female 48 years old
Disease description (time of onset, the main symptom, etc.):
My breast is small but within the breasts are hot and long on the side of the tingling feeling pain right breast pain in both upper and lower lateral rib pain when the milk if there are more than two decades of mass surface particles are strong blocks often swollen nipple hot itch pain about a week before the menstrual period or when the increase is very painful labor

How do want to help:
May be cancer? If you do check about how much money? Thank you!

And whether treatment was allergies, genetic history:
About three years ago, I did check the mastitis is allergic



Please go to the hospital as soon as possible, if it is better early benign, can be removed, if need chemotherapy in advanced
This can not be delayed, early inspection is better to prevent malignant change of benign

2011/07/14

Main issues during breast cancer diagnosis have to be mastered

Early diagnosis of breast cancer is important, is directly related to the prognosis of the disease, so Herceptin to be reminded in the diagnosis process have the following key issues:
Asked medical history can help us get to identify a variety of breast benign and malignant disease of the necessary information. Experienced middle-aged patients, the tumor appeared to be asking the time, location, growth speed, and have done what tests and treatments, which previously suffered from a serious illness, immediate family members of patients without cancer. Herceptin to remind patients about the marriage, menstruation, birth and breastfeeding history. In addition to the central nervous system and other vital organs, but also check surface lymph nodes, especially in the pre-Division, ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes, etc. The size, shape, texture. Liver examination can not be ignored. Local breast cancer screening is an important step in clinical diagnosis, observation of the breast skin, nipple without exception, palpation of the tumor and the tumor with skin the texture of adhesion, activity, size, boundaries are clear, careful palpation areola area and a good site , with or without symptoms orange peel, dimple sign, satellite nodules, skin ulcers, nipple discharge, etc. Herceptin clinical examination can not be diagnosed if reminded, can be a variety of special inspections. Which the X-ray (mammography or dry plate radiography, angiography duct), cytology (fine needle aspiration, the filtrate smear), biopsy, X-ray computer tomography for, B-mode ultrasound and other methods most commonly used, and has a high diagnostic accuracy.

Patients with the disease now how to?


1 Doctors do not practice too much self-confidence that some doctors count on many years of experience, touched the fingers alone can know, that do not have to take X-ray sign, do B, the wrong breast cancer diagnosis of breast hyperplasia, breast fibroadenoma delay the treatment time, which is clinically the most common causes of misdiagnosis, many doctors have a hard lesson.

(2) should be thoroughly checked some disease is difficult to identify, early detection of breast cancer, a small tumor, and smooth, because the violation has not been around, so good activity, with no skin adhesion, no orange peel natural signs, X-ray and B-are difficult to diagnose, the most radical method is surgical biopsy. In fact many patients difficult to accept, the doctor has not insisted that only "observe."

3 Patients should pay attention to a lot of women do not have anti-cancer knowledge, not to do regular medical examinations, even if that breast tumor, because no pain, no itching and not to treatment; need to observe not timely referral of patients, doctors failed to grasp the changes in the disease , also caused some of the misdiagnosis.

How to cure my aunt's breast cancer?

My aunt has breast cancer, was in a hurry, ask to see gynecological diseases where the next best?


Surgical treatment of breast cancer is still one of the main surgical treatment options are still a variety of its total lack of a unified view of the trend is to minimize the surgical damage to the device under conditions allowing for early breast cancer patients try to keep the breast shape no matter what choice types of surgical procedures must be strictly controlled in order to keep function and appearance-based radical supplemented by the principle.


This is not a gynecological disease, you should go to the best cancer hospital.


Or find a large hospital and see. Good local experts in breast surgery.


While surgery can remove the cancer, but there are residual cancer or lymph node metastasis, or vascular thrombosis in existence, etc., the use of Chinese medicine after long-term treatment to prevent recurrence and metastasis; radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment of gastrointestinal and hematopoietic system have considerable side effects, both to reduce the use of Chinese medicine treatment of radiotherapy and chemotherapy side effects, but also enhance radiotherapy, chemotherapy effects, for patients with advanced cancer or not surgery and radiotherapy, chemotherapy can be used Chinese medicine treatment. Chinese herbal medicine with Qi Australian brand yew, Taxus CCTV evaluation of Chinese herbal medicine has been fifteen years to the most markedly anti-cancer traditional Chinese medicine, the medical profession in the evaluation of patients with advanced cancer of the straw, I do not recommend chaos, at least the most reliable