Breast cancer diagnosis?

Monday, March 31, 2008 · Posted in

Early diagnosis of breast cancer is very important, directly related to the prognosis of the disease, so the diagnosis process to master the following points;
(1) history and asked: System asked history, can help us identify the various breast benign and malignant diseases of the necessary information. Encountered middle-aged and older patients, the tumor appeared to be asked the time, location, speed and growth have made the detection and treatment, with a past of the serious illnesses, whether in the immediate family members of patients with malignant tumors. But also the patients marriage, menstruation, childbirth and lactation history.
(2) physical examination: Apart from the understanding of 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 cities in the ipsilateral axillary lymph node size, shape, texture. Liver inspection also can not be overlooked. Local breast cancer screening is an important step in the clinical diagnosis, observation breast skin, and abnormal nipple there, and palpation of skin tumors and tumor extent of the adhesions texture, activity, size, the border is clear, carefully attending areola and palpable good, site, whether orange peel levy, dimple levy, satellite nodules, skin ulcers, such as nipple discharge.
(3) Other inspections: if not diagnosed on clinical examination can be carried out various special inspection. Them to X-ray inspection (mammography or dry plate radiography, duct angiography), cytology (needle aspiration, and the filtrate smears), biopsy, a computer tomography X-ray and B-ultrasonic methods most commonly used, It has high diagnostic accuracy rate.

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