Breast Cancer Lump

Breast Cancer Lump

How the breast cancer looks like??

The best way to identify the breasts lump is a monthly routine self-exam of your breast. You may feel lump in your breast. In the initial stage it may be feel like a pea but as you grew older it also increases in size. The upper area of your armpit may have the major lumps and the lower part of your breast is like pebble. The upper area of the nipple is lumpy while the next part possesses large number of grain like structures.

All breast lumps are not cancerous:

Breast Cancer Lump

Presence of lump in your breast is one of the signs of breast cancer but it is not necessary that your breast lump is a cancer. Most of the breast lumps are benign (non-cancerous). Out of all breast lumps 80% are benign means they are non-cancerous.

Breast Cancer Lump

How to find lumps are Benign (non-cancerous) or Malignant (cancerous)??

The lumps which move easily when you force them and those having smooth edges are benign lumps. You can fell the benign lumps in both breasts. Benign lumps do not spread on other parts of the body. Benign lumps are painless. Whereas Malignant lumps are hard and thick; which do not move easily. If you feel pain in lumps, it may be cancerous.

Breast Cancer Lump

Causes of benign breast lumps:

• Breast lumps may form due to the normal change in breast tissues.

• Lumps may also form due to injury or infections

• Regular use of some medicines also increases the lumps and pain in lumps.

Male Breast Cancer Lump

If you feel large collections of granules in your breast it may be due to the fibrocystic changes. Before a period begins every women have fibrocystic changes, formation of fibrous tissues in the breast. This fibrous tissue may form the benign breast lump.

Breast Cysts

Sometimes cysts (fluid filled tissues) also develop breast lumps. Deposition of calcium may also cause benign breast lump. A solid lump called fibroadenoma also form breast lump. This type of lumps occurs in women during their reproductive period.

Fibroadenoma

If you are finding a lump in your breast for long period then go to your physician and explain everything that you had experienced in your breast. It will help to know about the breast cancer.