Is postmenopausal breast pain cancer?

Although breast pain is common in postmenopausal women, it is more dangerous than before menopause. Postmenopausal women are more likely to develop breast cancer. At this time, breast pain may be a sign of breast cancer. So, is postmenopausal breast pain cancer? Let's have a simple understanding of this issue. I hope the following points will be helpful to everyone!

Everything is normal after menopause

1. If a woman has regular breast pain before menopause, it is normal to experience breast pain for a short period of time after menopause. This is because the menopausal period before menopause is a stage in which the body's endogenous estrogen secretion decreases rapidly, and breast tissue is usually unable to adapt to this emergency in a short period of time. Therefore, symptoms such as local breast pain and thickening of the glandular duct will occur. At this time, you only need to protect the breasts regularly and take some female menopausal syndrome drugs appropriately.

2. After menopause, due to the significant decrease in estrogen in the body, the breast, as the target organ of estrogen, loses its regular changes of proliferation and involution with the physiological cycle, and enters a relatively "quiet" stage. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the breasts gradually shrink due to the lack of estrogen stimulation after a period of menopause, and the glandular ducts gradually decline and are replaced by fat tissue, which manifests as reduced breast volume, softness and sagging, and increased skin wrinkles. In addition, breast lumps caused by the original benign breast diseases may also shrink to varying degrees with the shrinkage of normal glandular ducts, and regular breast pain and other symptoms should also disappear.

Postmenopausal breast pain

This situation should be particularly noted, that is, breast pain occurs again many years after menopause. It may be just a dull pain, and the breast may feel hard or there may be no hard lump but only a feeling of thickening of the glandular duct. At this time, you should always be alert to the possibility of early breast cancer and do not ignore it. Because middle-aged women after menopause have entered the high-risk group for breast cancer in terms of age, supervision should be strengthened and patients with postmenopausal breast pain should be given special attention. You should go to the hospital for examination and treatment immediately.

How to check: 1. The main thing to do is to perform a B-ultrasound examination of the breast, which can detect whether there is abnormal proliferation of tissue in the breast and help women eliminate breast diseases. 2. Women should also do an infrared breast examination, which uses an infrared scanner to determine whether there are any abnormalities in the breast and what the tissue structure is. This type of examination has no radiation risk, does not harm health, and has no harm to the breasts. 3. Breast molybdenum target examination: This type of examination is more suitable for postmenopausal women, because at this time women's breasts are sagging, elasticity has decreased, and tissues are loose, so the observation is very clear and the diagnosis is relatively easy. However, this type of examination has certain harm to the breasts and is not suitable for young, infertile women.

Warning: What does the appearance of "dimple sign" and "orange peel sign" on the breast mean?

1. Although the "dimple sign" is the result of tumor invading the skin, it is not always the main manifestation of late-stage breast cancer. For example, breast cancer occurring in the caudal tube and alveolar epithelial cells is closer to the skin and is prone to this phenomenon. It can be one of the earlier clinical symptoms of breast cancer. When the tumor is smaller, it may cause slight skin adhesion, which is often ignored because it is very mild. At this time, you need to gently support the entire breast under good sunlight to increase the support of the breast skin. You can also gently move the breast lump, and you can see slight indentations caused by slight skin wrinkling and stretching above the disease. This type of mild skin adhesion that appears in the early stages of the breast is often one of the important links in distinguishing between benign and malignant breast lumps.

2. When the lymphatic vessels in the subcutaneous tissue of the breast are blocked by tumor cells, or the tumor located in the central area of ​​the breast infiltrates and causes obstruction of the flow of fluid back into the superficial tissue of the breast, the dermis of the skin will swell. Because the skin is closely connected to the subcutaneous tissue at the hair follicles, several spot-like indentations will appear at the hair follicles, and the pores of the skin will be clear, giving the skin an orange peel-like appearance, which is the "orange peel sign." The "orange peel sign" caused by varicose arteries in the breast skin is a typical manifestation of late-stage breast cancer, indicating that the cancerous tissue of the breast has grown invasively. Generally, the lump is already quite large at this time, and the "orange peel sign" is also more prominent, so it is not difficult to make a diagnosis based on this.

Before and after menopause, you should pay more attention to the maintenance of your breasts to prevent the occurrence of breast diseases. You can adopt Chinese medicine health care methods without side effects. Add dandelion flower essence powder, orange kelp powder, etc. to your daily diet, which can effectively relieve menstrual pain, dissolve knots, and have a certain health care effect on the breasts. Caring for breast health is a compulsory course for women throughout their lives. Always pay attention to breast health, detect problems as early as possible, and seek treatment as soon as possible. No matter what age you are, you must take care of yourself and keep yourself in the healthiest body and the most cheerful mentality.