Breast Cancer Lumps

Breast Cancer Lumps

Breast Cancer Lumps

If you find a lump in your breast, it could be a cancerous breast lump. You could feel this lump by a routine breast self-exam. Presence of a lump could be unusual to you. It could be stressful for a woman to check a lump so a doctor could say it better.

Breast Cancer Lumps

If you find any kind of lump in any part of your breast it is important to check by a physician. Still it doesn’t means that presence of a lump is a cancer because almost 80% of all lumps are benign means non-cancerous.

Cancerous Breast Lump

The size of a lump in initial is like of pea. The lump with rough edge, pain and hard, can be a malignant tumor. Cancerous breast lump is not fatty or glandular. It is not smooth but of rough edge. Check your both breasts; if you do not find lump in both breasts then go to see your doctor.

Some of the signs that suggests of cancerous breast lump:

• The lump should be hard and firm
• the cancerous lump cannot distinguish easily as it is as small as a pea.
• the cancerous lump does not move anywhere when you push it
• if there is only one lump it suggests of cancerous breast lump
• if there are different kind of lumps in both breasts it indicates of a cancerous breast lump.
• the breast possessing cancerous lump is dimpled
• the cancerous lump breast discharge bloody fluid

Some of the signs that suggests of non-cancerous breast lump:

• the lump should be soft
• the benign lump (non-cancerous) moves easily 
• presence of number of lumps indicates of benign breast lump

Breast Mammogram

Without testing a lump in a Breast Mammogram or in USG (ultra-sono-gram) it will be difficult for a woman or a physician to tell about the breast cancer. Breast Biopsy can also detect this disease. For a biopsy a sample of breast lump is taken and seen it under the microscope to identify cancer cells. This test will decide whether the lump/tumor is benign or malignant.

Breast Biopsy

Other warnings of this problem are:

• Breast lump get harder and larger
• Inverted nipples
• Bloody discharge from the nipple
• Color of the skin changes and looks like an orange-peel
• Breast may become red and dimpled too

Clinical Breast Exam

Beside these signs it is not necessary that your breast lumps are cancerous, sometimes it is nothing than a cyst. So don’t worry and don’t hesitate to show your breast to your physician and have a Nice Clinical Breast Exam.