If you have armpit pain, be careful of these diseases

Now people's living standards are gradually improving, but everyone is more concerned about making more money in life and has no time to pay attention to physical health problems. Over time, many people often feel armpit pain. If armpit pain occurs in women, you should be careful that it may be a breast disease, because armpit pain is likely to be a symptom of breast hyperplasia, mastitis, or breast cancer, and you need to go to the hospital for examination in time.

Armpit pain may be caused by breast cancer

Warning 1: Breast hyperplasia

The pain intensity of breast hyperplasia changes regularly with the menstrual cycle: it gets worse before menstruation and gets better after menstruation. Other symptoms include breast lumps, and the size of the lumps may change cyclically with menstruation. The lumps of breast hyperplasia are distributed in flakes, blocks or granules, of different sizes, with good mobility and no adhesion to surrounding tissues. In contrast, malignant breast tumors often show progressive growth, unclear boundaries, poor mobility, and obvious adhesion to surrounding tissues.

Warning 2: Mastitis

Mastitis is common after childbirth, and is especially likely to occur during the postpartum period. Severe breast pain, accompanied by breast redness, swelling, obvious tenderness, fever and other inflammatory symptoms.

Special reminder: If you have armpit pain, you should consider the possibility of breast cancer

In the early stages of breast cancer, its symptoms are often not obvious. However, due to the distribution of blood and lymph in the breast, the breast and axillary tissue are closely connected. The axillary area often becomes the first target of breast cancer metastasis. Therefore, if you have armpit pain, you should consider the possibility of breast cancer. In addition, there are characteristic changes in the early stages of breast cancer, such as discharge from the nipple, inverted nipple, and breast tumors. The surface of the tumor is uneven, with unclear boundaries with surrounding tissues, and there are changes in the breast skin (such as orange peel) and pigmentation.

The following are some common symptoms of breast cancer .

1. Lump: It is the first symptom of 95% of breast cancer patients. Most of them are single, rarely multiple, and the shapes tend to be round, oval or irregular. The texture is generally hard and the boundaries are unclear. Some cases, such as medullary carcinoma, have a softer texture and clearer borders. It often occurs in the upper outer quadrant, the mass increases rapidly, and may be mobile in the early stages.

2. Skin changes: Common changes include superficial venous distention, dimple sign and orange peel-like skin. Inflammatory breast cancer patients may have large areas of darkening, induration, and thickening of the chest skin, with cancerous plaques and ulcers forming an armor-like chest wall. Advanced breast cancer may break out superficially, forming ulcers or cauliflower-like neoplasms.

3. Changes in the nipple and areola: Breast cancer in the central area of ​​the breast may cause the large ducts to be invaded, which can cause the nipple to become flat, sunken, or retracted, or even sink under the areola, leading to deformation of the areola. Paget's disease may cause eczematous changes on the nipple and areola skin.

4. Nipple discharge: Breast cancer with discharge accounts for 1.3-7% of the total number of breast cancers, and is more common in intraductal carcinoma and papillary carcinoma. Bloody discharge is the most common, followed by serous, serous-bloody, and watery discharges. Breast cancer with discharge as the only symptom is extremely rare, and most of them are early intraductal carcinoma and papillary carcinoma. Most breast cancers with discharge are first discovered with a lump and then accompanied by discharge.

5. Axillary lymph node enlargement: It is rare as the first symptom of breast cancer (unless it is occult breast cancer); it mostly indicates the progression of breast cancer and it is necessary to rule out metastasis from other malignant tumors in the upper limbs, shoulders, back, and chest. Pathological examination can help confirm the diagnosis.

6. Breast pain: The early symptoms are painless lumps. When breast cancer is combined with cystic hyperplasia, there may be distending pain and dull pain. Pain in advanced breast cancer often indicates direct nerve invasion by the tumor. The above are the general symptoms of breast cancer.