Is it breast cancer that you can feel on your chest?
Jul 16, 2024
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Tumors are divided into benign and malignant tumors. Although benign is relatively slow to grow and does not metastasize, malignant is fast to grow and spreads to surrounding tissues and other body parts, which are also life-threatening. Fibroma is the most common benign tumor among breast tumors. It is known that it occurs because one local area of the breast has a higher sensitivity to estrogen than the other. It is common mostly in women between the ages of 20 and 50 and is mostly a lump unrelated to cancer.
In many cases, it grows and stops, and most of them grow less than 1 cm and then stop. It is recommended to remove common fibroid when it grows, but it is not very dangerous even if it is not removed. In particular, young women tend to perform only breast ultrasound follow-up without special treatment.
However, composite fibroid adenomas should be carefully examined. Since cancer is also grown around the tumor, a full biopsy is needed. In other words, it is known that the risk of cancer increases compared to general fibroid adenoma in the case of complex fibrous adenoma. Therefore, complex fibroadenoma requires surgery.
Follicular tumors are relatively rare breast tumors, but they are dangerous. This is called a follicle tumor because the inside of the tumor looks like a leaf, and it grows very fast and large. A biopsy is essential because it is not well distinguished from malignant tumors and fibro-adenomas. In general, 60-70% or more are benign, and about 16-30% are malignant. In the case of malignant follicular tumors, 20% to 25% metastasize to the lungs or bones.
Follicular tumors tend to recur easily. Therefore, it is safe to cut wide to the normal range during surgery to eliminate the possibility of recurrence. This is because it starts as a benign follicular tumor that does not spread elsewhere and then changes to a malignant follicular tumor in the process of repeated recurrence. The prognosis is not good, and the treatment is different from that of general breast cancer.
In principle, the treatment of breast follicle tumors is performed by surgery. A small benign follicular tumor is extensively resected, including normal breast tissue. In the case of large follicular tumors or malignant follicular tumors, recurrence can be reduced only when extensive mastectomy is performed.
Chung Hong-kyu, director of Surgery at Seran Hospital, explained, `Lobeloma is a disease that can progress to malignant tumors and requires differential diagnosis from fibro-adenoma.' `Most are benign or rarely malignant, and if positive, local recurrence is common, requiring complete resection.'
Director Chung Hong-kyu then said, "Just because a lump is touched in the breast, it is not all cancer, but it is highly likely that it is a benign disease such as fibro-adenoma." "We need to determine what kind of breast tumor is, through mammography and ultrasound, and early on whether it is a tumor that is likely to develop into breast cancer." he advised.
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