Breast Hyperplasia and Breast Cancer
Conditions like breast hyperplasia and breast cancer sound terrifying, yet represent harsh realities. Latest medical data indicate that nearly 200,000 women die annually in China from breast cancer and malignant tumors, making them the leading threat to women’s health, with rising incidence rates and increasing youthfulness. Breast hyperplasia, as an early stage of breast tumors, has a high malignant transformation rate. Currently, about 70% of women over 25 suffer from breast diseases. Among them, breast hyperplasia, breast cysts, and fibroadenomas are most common. Although multiple factors contribute to breast cancer, the vast majority arise from malignant transformation of breast hyperplasia. This condition primarily affects adults and middle-aged to elderly individuals. Having breast disease is not frightening; with scientific and detailed diagnosis and treatment by experts, breast cancer occurrence can be reduced or prevented. Once breast disease is detected, ignoring it—believing it doesn’t affect eating, drinking, or work—is dangerous. Delayed treatment may lead to irreversible cancer transformation. Key characteristics of breast hyperplasia: emotional stress, fatigue, occasional shoulder, upper limb, or back soreness and heaviness. This condition relates to endocrine imbalance and menstrual cycles. The lump enlarges and breast pain intensifies before menstruation. Palpation reveals irregularly shaped, varying-sized nodules. Pressure worsens pain. Lumps are mostly located in the upper outer quadrant of the breast. Rapid growth within a short period raises suspicion of cancer. Fibroadenomas commonly occur in young women around age 25. They are mobile, painless, and itchless when pressed, appearing as oval masses. Surgical removal of the affected breast segment or entire breast may treat the condition, but the widespread variant cells cannot be entirely eliminated. Regardless of hyperplasia, fibroadenoma, or advanced-stage breast cancer, complete eradication is impossible and often unacceptable to patients.<Breast>