What methods can prevent breast cancer

At present, breast cancer has become a major killer that threatens women's health and life. Many women's faces change when they talk about breast cancer, fearing that this terrible cancer will come to them. Although breast cancer is a relatively mild type of cancer, we should still try to stay away from breast cancer. So what are the prevention methods for us to refer to?

1. Establish a new concept of early cancer:

Early cancer is not uncommon among patients who are examined on a daily basis, and should be more common than common mid- and late-stage cancers, because in the natural course of breast cancer growth, the preclinical stage accounts for about 2/3 of the entire process. Despite this, early cancer is rarely detected, indicating that most early cancers are missed by examiners during the examination. The reason is mainly because examiners lack sufficient understanding of early cancer. To date, the vast majority of examiners still use the traditional concept of "breast lump" as the primary sign for diagnosing breast cancer. The aforementioned early cancer may not form an obvious lump. Under the guidance of this concept, early cancer is bound to be difficult to detect. Therefore, the new concept of early cancer should be re-understood.

2. Carefully check the risk factors for breast cancer:

There are many risk factors for breast cancer, the most common of which are as follows:

(1) Family history of breast cancer, especially whether the mother and sisters of the examinee have had the disease;

(2) Early menarche (less than 12 years old) or late menopause (more than 50 years old);

(3) Over 40 years old and not having children;

(4) If one breast has had cancer, and the other breast is also a susceptible area, etc. Anyone with these factors should be considered susceptible to breast cancer and should be the focus of examination.

3. Any abnormality in the breast should be investigated:

(1) Nipple discharge, especially bloody discharge, is often associated with breast cancer. In particular, when bloody discharge occurs in women over 50 years old, more than half of the cases may be malignant.

(2) Localized thickening of the breast glands is a very common but neglected clinical sign. If this occurs in premenopausal women, especially when the size changes with the menstrual cycle, it is mostly physiological. If the thickened tissue persists for a long time and is not related to the menstrual cycle, or becomes increasingly thicker and larger in size, especially in postmenopausal women, it must be taken seriously.

(3) If nipple erosion fails to respond to repeated local treatment, Paget's disease should be considered. The positive rate of cell smear is very high and a diagnosis should be made promptly.

(4) Breast pain in premenopausal women, especially when the pain changes with the menstrual cycle and the degree of pain varies from mild to severe, is mostly physiological. If the pain is localized, has a fixed location, is not related to the menstrual cycle, or is in postmenopausal women, the cause should be identified.

(5) Unexplained areola skin edema, nipple retraction, and localized depression of the breast skin all require careful investigation of the causes.

In short, early detection and early treatment are undoubtedly the development direction of breast cancer prevention and treatment. What is urgently needed now is to vigorously popularize the knowledge of early breast cancer detection and diagnosis, widely carry out breast cancer screening and women's self-examination of breasts, so as to achieve the goal of improving survival rate and reducing mortality rate as soon as possible. And female friends themselves should also pay more attention to their own bodies and take good care of themselves.