Sunday, March 2, 2008

Breast cancer diagnosis?

Early diagnosis of breast cancer is very important, Directly related to the prognosis of the disease, so the diagnosis process to master the following:
(1) medical history questions: System asked history, can help us to make identification of breast benign and malignant diseases of the necessary information. Experienced middle-aged and older patients, the tumor appeared to be asked the time, location, speed and growth have made the detection and treatment, which has suffering from serious illnesses past, whether in the immediate family members of patients with malignant tumors. Patients also understand the marriage, menstruation, childbirth and lactation history.
(2) physical examination: In addition to understanding heart, lung, liver, kidney and central nervous system and other vital organs, but also have to check surface lymph nodes, in particular the Department of the PWC, and other places, the ipsilateral axillary lymph node size, shape, texture. Liver inspection also not be ignored. Local breast cancer screening is an important step in clinical diagnosis, observation breast skin, abnormal nipple there, and palpation of skin tumors and tumor extent of the adhesions texture, activity, size, the border is clear, careful and palpable good attending the areola location, whether orange peel levy,levy, satellite nodules, skin ulcers, such as nipple discharge.
(3) Other inspections: if not diagnosed on clinical examination can be carried out various special examinations. Among X-ray inspection (mammography or dry plate radiography, duct angiography), cytology (needle aspiration, filtrate smears), biopsy, a computer tomography X-ray and B-ultrasonic methods most commonly used, It has high diagnostic accuracy rate.
Breast cancer occurs in what location?
Breast cancer Breast good site to outside quadrant in the majority. Breast Masses also see the largest quadrant on the outside.
According to relevant data statistics, breast cancer is 60 percent occurred outside the quadrant; 12% occurred in the areola; 12 percent occurred, the quadrant; 10 percent occurred outside the quadrant; six percent occurred, the quadrant; mass involving the whole Milk, occupying the entire breast are less.

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