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.

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.