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Understanding Breast Lumps
Breast lumps are unusual clumps, bumps, bulges, mounds or masses of tissue located anywhere in one or both breasts, even in the tissue that extends up towards the region under the arm, known as the axilla.
The look and feel of breast lumps vary by:
- Size - pea-size to plum-size or larger
- Shape - may be round with regular, smooth borders or have an irregular shape with ill-defined borders
- Feel - may be painless or painful to touch
- Location - can be densely attached and fixed to the underlying chest wall or can be mobile and more superficial towards the surface of the skin
- Color/texture - puckering, dimpling, or unusually pink or red appearance of skin around the lump.
Keep in mind, breast tissue changes throughout a woman's life cycle, so that what is normal for your breasts will vary with age and phase of life, and with menstrual cycle as hormone levels vary with time of month, or may be affected by medications such as birth-control hormones or menopausal-hormone supplements
Excisional biopsy is surgically removing the entire lump. Small lumps are usually removed this way by a breast surgeon as an outpatient or day-surgery procedure.
Incisional biopsy is surgically removing a small sample or piece of the lump. Large lumps are usually sampled this way, also as an outpatient or day-surgery procedure by a breast surgeon.
Needle biopsy is when a needle is inserted into a lump and material is withdrawn with suction from a syringe. The needle can be a fine needle (very thin), or can be a core needle, a larger needle with a cutting edge to remove a nugget of tissue.
Localization biopsy is when a mammogram, ultrasound, or three-dimensional X-ray is used to help identify the precise location of a lump, usually when the lump is too small or situated too deeply in the breast tissue to feel through the skin.
Removing a sample and thoroughly examining this breast-lump tissue is the only sure way to know if a breast lump, especially a solid breast lump, is cancer.?????? ??????????? ????????????
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