Is surgery necessary for breast fibroma?

Breast fibroma is a very common disease. Although it is a benign tumor, it needs to be taken seriously by women. If breast fibroma is not treated in time, there is a risk of cancer. Therefore, once breast fibroma is diagnosed, it should be treated as soon as possible. Breast fibroma can cause breast pain. Is surgery necessary for breast fibroma?

Is surgery necessary for breast fibroma?

The best treatment for diseases like breast fibroadenoma is surgery, which is also a relatively thorough treatment method. However, it should be noted that breast fibroadenoma is a benign tumor and grows relatively slowly. Therefore, if the tumor is too small, surgical treatment is not required for the time being. If the tumor is too small, it is not easy to find during surgery. Therefore, whether patients with breast fibroadenoma need surgery depends on the situation.

Under normal clinical circumstances, 3cm is the limit for tumor size. If the tumor size is larger than 3cm, surgical treatment must be performed immediately. If it is smaller than 3cm, observe it first and go to the hospital regularly to check the size of the tumor. Wait until it is larger than 3cm before undergoing surgical treatment. However, there is a special case where the tumor volume of the patient's breast fibroids has not reached 3cm. In this case, surgical treatment is also necessary. That is, the woman is about to become pregnant or breastfeeding. During this period, regardless of the size of the tumor, surgical treatment must be performed immediately, because the endocrine changes of women during pregnancy and lactation are very large, which makes the tumor grow faster.

If the size of the breast fibroid is not very large, you can choose traditional Chinese medicine treatment, irrational treatment and other methods to effectively treat the local effective position. It’s just that non-surgical treatment methods take a little longer time. Patients should not be impatient and must be patient. If the tumor grows very fast, it is better to choose surgical treatment.

Although the best way to treat breast fibroadenoma is surgical removal, it is not necessary to have surgery once breast fibroadenoma is discovered. Some tumors are still very small, so you can observe them temporarily and then choose to have surgery when they grow to a certain size. Surgery also depends on the timing.

Breast fibroadenoma develops slowly, has no symptoms, and does not affect life and work. It can be closely observed and followed up regularly. During the observation process, if you self-examine your breasts or go to the hospital for a check-up and find that the fibroadenoma tends to grow, or if the color ultrasound originally showed no blood flow signals in the mass but now a large amount of blood flow signals are seen, it should be surgically removed.

The surgical methods include traditional open excision and vacuum-assisted minimally invasive excision. If the breast fibroadenoma is completely removed surgically, it will generally not recur. If it grows again from another part of the body, it is called multiple breast fibroadenomas. If multiple or recurrent tumors are large in diameter or the patient is older, surgical resection should be performed again at an appropriate time.