How much do you know about the early symptoms of breast cancer?

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. It is also a "physical and mental health killer" for women. If you don't know the early symptoms of breast cancer, when breast cancer is diagnosed, you often have to undergo major surgery or deal with breast cancer complications, so to prevent breast cancer, we must first know how to identify the early symptoms of breast cancer in order to minimize the harm of breast cancer. The following will introduce various early symptoms of breast cancer one by one.

1. Breast nodules

Breast nodules are often the most easily recognizable early symptoms of breast cancer. Female friends should take a bath every day. While bathing, they should press around the nipple with moderate force. If you feel a single nodule that is solid, hard, fixed, and has poor mobility, you should be alert.

2. Orange peel syndrome

If you have breast cancer, the skin on the surface of the breast will show "orange peel sign". That is, the skin of the breast becomes thicker and coarser, and the pores become larger. This is also one of the early symptoms of breast cancer. The reason why "orange peel sign" appears is because the Cooper's ligament is involved or the tumor is adhered to the skin.

3. Skin changes

Abnormalities such as eczema-like changes, edema, and discoloration on the breast skin are related to nodules and masses in the breast. It may also be one of the early symptoms of breast cancer. A small number of patients may also have signs of different breast sizes.

4. Nipple discharge

Nipple discharge is common during breastfeeding. However, this abnormal sign can also occur in the early stages of breast cancer. When the mammary duct epithelium proliferates, becomes inflamed or bleeds, becomes necrotic, or becomes cancerous, nipple discharge can occur. Nipple discharge of bloody fluid is one of the early symptoms of breast cancer.

5. Swollen lymph nodes

Lymph nodes are the body's immune defense front. Once an organ has inflammatory lesions, the surrounding lymph nodes often become larger to remind people of the disease. Breast cancer is no exception. The axillary lymph nodes on the same side of the patient's breast will swell and warn. This is also one of the early symptoms of breast cancer.

The above is an introduction to the five early symptoms of breast cancer. In addition to finding traces of breast cancer through early symptoms of breast cancer, we can also discover it through auxiliary examinations. Currently, medicine is developing rapidly, and early breast cancer can also be diagnosed by molybdenum target, X-ray, radionuclide examination, infrared, ultrasound, etc. However, the "gold standard" for diagnosis is still pathological examination, such as breast lumps, nipple secretions, etc.