Symptoms of cystic breast masses

There are many common diseases among women. When treating women's diseases, you must first understand the disease so that you can choose the correct method when treating it. Breast disease poses a great threat to women's bodies. Once women suffer from such diseases, they need to receive treatment immediately. Breast cystic masses are very common. What are the symptoms of breast cystic masses? The following is a detailed introduction so that you can have some understanding.

Symptoms of cystic breast masses:

This disease, also known as chronic cystic breast hyperplasia, is a benign hyperplasia caused by endocrine disorders and is related to abnormal sex hormone metabolism, especially the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone ratio. This disease is easily confused with breast cancer.

The prominent clinical manifestations are breast tenderness and lumps. In most patients, the pain is related to the menstrual cycle. The pain often worsens 3 to 5 days before menstruation and eases or disappears after menstruation. Sometimes the pain exists throughout the menstrual cycle and the course of the disease is long. Examination may reveal diffuse hyperplasia of one or both breasts, which may be limited to one part of the breast or dispersed throughout the breast. The lumps are granular, nodular or flaky, of varying sizes, tough but not hard, movable, tender, with unclear boundaries from surrounding tissues, and the axillary lymph nodes are not large. A small number of patients may have nipple discharge.

Classification of Breast Masses

Most of the lumps that premenopausal women suffer from are cystic breast hyperplasia and fibroadenomas, which are mostly caused by hormonal fluctuations. Cystic hyperplasia is filled with fluid, so it feels soft and can slide under the skin; fibroadenoma is caused by connective tissue hyperplasia, has clear boundaries with surrounding tissues, can move freely, and is hard but not as hard as stone.

The main characteristic of large duct papilloma of the nipple is nipple discharge (bloody). The lumps are generally small and soft, while the lumps of cancer are as hard as stone, adhered to the surrounding areas and cannot move. The rest of the mass in the breast may simply be some exaggerated nuclei, but it is clearly different from the surrounding tissue. Doctors often refer to it as "fibroglandular breast changes."

If you find a new lump in your breast, you should seek medical attention immediately. Doctors generally use color ultrasound or mammography and other technologies to make diagnoses.

After understanding the symptoms of breast cystic masses, when improving breast cystic masses, you must pay attention to choosing simple foods in your diet. Also, be careful that women should not be too anxious after suffering from such a disease. Emotional instability will make the breast cystic masses larger, and the treatment will be very complicated. Women must pay attention to this.