BREAST CANCER BASE

Breast cancer is harmful to the health of women cancer, the main symptom of milk from the hands of painless, single, fuzzy edge, the activity of small lumps, and some may have nipple discharge, inverted nipple and breast skin Orange symptoms like change. However, some patients do not above the typical symptoms, nor generalized discomfort, only axillary lymphadenopathy as the first symptoms, such breast cancer in medicine called "occult breast cancer."

Occult breast cancer means no symptoms and clinical examination (as measles and palpation), failed to find breast cancer, including clinical examination is considered benign breast. Occult breast cancer is divided into non-metastatic breast cancer early in hidden and has been transferred to the hidden advanced breast cancer, which failed to clinical found in the original tumor.

About 46% of breast cancer can be hidden X-ray examinations and found that its X-ray and non-occult breast cancer X-ray findings of little distinction. Most of the occult breast cancer X-ray characteristics of micro calcifications or dense shadow. On suspected cases, in consecutive regular review process, if the new local dense shadow, the early diagnosis of breast cancer is a highly correct the X-ray features.