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What percent of people with breast pain have cancer?
2%
What is the most common symptom of breast disease?
Pain
What is the second most common complaint about the breasts?
Palpable mass (lump)
What percent of lumps in the breast are malignant?
10% under age 40
60% over age 40
What percent of mammorographic abnormalities found during screening are malignant?
20-30%
Define acute mastitis:
infection of the breast
What is the term for infection of the breast?
Acute mastitis
Acute mastitis is usually in only one breast (T/F)?
True
False
True, usually unilateral
What are the syptoms of acute mastitits?
pain
sweeling
heat
redness
Heat, pain, swelling and redness of the breast indicates what disease?
Acute mastitis
What organisms usually cause acute mastitis?
Staph aureus or Strep
Should a mother with mastitis stop nursing?
No, usually advised to keep nursing
What is the treatment for Acute mastitis?
Antibiotics
Nursing
Surgical drainage (rare)
how are most breast masses discovered?
Found by patient
What percent of breast masses are benign?
90%
What is the most common diagnosis for breast mass?
Fibriscystic change
What is the most common benign tumor of the breast?
Fibroadenoma
Chance of malignancy increases with what risk factor?
Age
What are the five main types of Breast masses?
Fibroadenoma
Fibrocystic change
Papilloma
Carcinoma
Fat necorsis
When does fat necrosis develop in the breast?
After trauma, surgery or radiation (can mimic cancer)
What benign breast mass can mimic cancer?
Fat necrosis
What four means do we have of examining Breast masses?
Clinical exam
Lumpectomy/needle aspiration/Biopsy
Mammogram
Estrogen/Progesterone receptor measurement
Why would you perform a measurement of estrogen and progesterone receptors ona biopsy sample of the breast?
To determine the responsiveness of the cancer to hormone therapy
How do you determin ethe responsiveness of breast cancer to hormone therapy?
Measure the progesterone and estrogen receptors on a biopsy sample
What is FNA?
Fine needle aspiration
Define fibrocystic changes?
general term to describe variety of benign breast changes
What are symptoms of Fibrocystic change?
Nodularity of the breast or vague mass
Why do Fibrocystic changes occur?
Due to exaggerated cyclical hormone changes during the menstrual cycle
Exaggerated menstrual cycles of hormone levels can cause what?
Fibrocystic changes
What is the most common cause of breast mass in young women?
Fibrocystic change
What may decrease the risk of Fibrocystic change?
OCP
OCP can decrease the chance of what?
Fibrocystic change
What two type of fibrocystc change are there?
Non-proliferative
Proliferative
Describe non-proliferative Fibrocystic change:
fibrosis and cyst formtion
poses little breast cancer risk
Which type of Fibrocystuc change poses little breast cancer risk?
Non-proliferative
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PTG 105- Exam 3- Lecture 19 - 2
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PTG 105- Exam 3- Lecture 19 - 2
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