For the treatment of breast cancer, in addition to traditional surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy, in recent years the medical profession also rise against a recurrence of breast cancer and advanced breast cancer treatment — endocrine therapy.
However, the Zhongshan University Cancer Hospital director Dr. thoracic surgery, breast chief expert Professor Tim Young who, in a recent press interview, endocrine therapy only to those hormones (estrogen and progestin) receptor-positive patients in the role, and such people in breast cancer patients about 70%. Therefore, not every one of breast cancer patients are required to undergo hormonal therapy.
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Bilateral breast cancer refers to bilateral breast simultaneously or in succession of primary breast cancer, breast cancer incidence rate is about 5 ~ 7%. Bilateral simultaneous breast cancer diagnostic criteria : 1 Bilateral mass similar size, no regional lymph node metastasis; ② bilateral without staff members; ③ bilateral able surgery, the skin without lymphatic invasion. In addition, bilateral lesions were above the outside, as one of the diagnostic criteria. Bilateral simultaneous breast-average interval of five to seven years, but the first to the side after treatment for more than three years. Its diagnostic criteria : 1 adjacent to the first cancer diagnosis sure, and had therapy; ② side after the first of at least two years without recurrence; ③ no other parts of distant metastasis. Bilateral basic types of pathology not the same, as both primary cancer diagnosis, but some clinical characteristics can help identify whether the second side of the original cancer or metastases
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Kirin Brewery Company of Japan has announced the results of research shows that beer components inhibit the effects of breast cancer, and has adopted animal experiments to confirm.
According to "Japanese Industry News" reported that the researchers used only after the birth six months of experiments with mice, the mice will be divided into four groups, each 30, after the freeze-drying beer powder were 1%, 2% and 4% in the concentration of high-fat feed incorporation, then all three groups of rats eating, and allow the remaining consumption of a group of beer-doped powder is not the high-fat feed. A week later, the researchers periodically to the four groups of rats injected heterocyclic amines, substances which can cause cancer-related DNA mutates so that mice with breast cancer.
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Gynecomastia is women's diseases, multiple, is benign lesions. Although some people think of benign breast disease can increase breast hyperplasia and the risk of breast cancer in breast cancer, but the general proliferation of breast cancer risk is very low. According to relevant information, simple hyperplasia in breast cancer risk to below 1%, cystic hyperplasia cancer risk of 2% to 4%. It had breast hyperplasia after the first should not be afraid, be relaxed, good emotional adjustment, especially each premenstrual mood changes when it should adjust well to listen to more music, some personal and meaningful social activities. While nodular hyperplasia closely observing the size, texture changes, regularly go to the hospital for check-specialist doctors, and if necessary should be done on some of the auxiliary, such as : ① right breast X-ray inspection hyperplasia, can be seen within the breast of Patchy performance, higher density nodular shadow, uneven density, edge fate unclear, irregular shape, or sometimes appeared Massive Ground Glass density increased video. ② B-hyperplasia of the breast screening, thickening of breast tissue can be seen, limitations or diffuse round or oval-shaped liquid dark and heterogeneous hypoechoic area, wall thickness and smooth edge. ③ near infrared scanning severe breast hyperplasia, breast transmittance reduced, and glass was hazy, gray clumps no obvious images of vascular running no change. Mild mammary hyperplasia patients Breast infrared scanning, under normal circumstances no abnormal transmission. ④ fine needle aspiration cytology trip can be seen in patients with lobular breast hyperplasia within the peripheral catheter, lobular or ductal lobular among other epithelial cell proliferation catheter change.
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