What are normal breasts like? In recent years, breast cancer has become the first killer threatening women's health, and women are paying more and more attention to breast cancer. The early symptoms of breast cancer are very obvious, so what is a normal breast like?
What is a normal breast? 1 Normal breasts are located on both sides of the chest, and adult women are mostly hemispherical or slightly drooping due to enlarged glands. It is one of the second sexual characteristics of women and an important breast-feeding organ, but the size, shape and development of breasts are influenced by many factors such as genetic nutrition, so everyone is different.
Normal breasts of adult women are composed of skin, fibrous tissue, adipose tissue and mammary gland. There is a nipple in the center of the breast surface, and a dark annular area around the nipple is called areola. The breast is hemispherical, tense and elastic. There are many small holes on the surface of the nipple, which are the openings of the milk delivery pipe. There are many small protrusions on the surface of areola, which are areola glands and can secrete lipid tissue to lubricate nipples. The internal structure of areola is composed of glandular lobes, and each glandular lobe has mammary duct, which is the channel for milk secretion and excretion during lactation.
If the breasts on both sides are asymmetrical, there are the following situations:
First, congenital factors. In the process of embryonic development, if there is an abnormal breast development at the beginning, in the later puberty breast development, the two breasts will be obviously asymmetrical, and the stunted one will be obviously smaller than the other.
Generally speaking, this situation will not affect marriage and childbearing, but it will lose the unique curvaceous beauty of women. Therefore, after the puberty breast is fully developed, breast augmentation with prosthesis can be carried out selectively, so that the original flat breast is as full as the healthy side and the elegance and self-confidence of women can be restored.
Second, acquired factors. It usually appears in multipara. When breastfeeding, mothers are often used to holding their babies in a certain direction, which leads to unequal breastfeeding opportunities on both sides. After weaning, the side with more opportunities is more prone to atrophy and degeneration than the side. This situation is generally not uncomfortable and will not affect life.
You can exercise the pectoral muscles on one side of the smaller breast and massage the smaller breast. If necessary, breast enhancement drugs or devices can be used externally (pay attention to identify the authenticity of various brands on the market and choose carefully). Of course, this situation can be avoided if we pay attention to alternate breastfeeding on both sides and have equal opportunities.
In addition, if the breasts on both sides used to be generally symmetrical, but recently there has been asymmetry, such as one breast enlargement, one breast skin color change or small skin depression, one nipple retraction or elevation, and sometimes accompanied by pain, itching, nipple discharge and other symptoms and signs, we should pay special attention. In this case, you should see a doctor immediately, carry out relevant examinations, and find possible lesions as soon as possible.
Macromastia can occur unilaterally or bilaterally. If breast tumor is touched, it should be carefully identified and further examined. A small number of women have tiny nipple-like protrusions on one or both armpits, or are accompanied by light-colored pigments, which are auxiliary breasts. Individual accessory mammary glands can be raised, in which adenoid tissue can be touched. What kind of breast enhancement is abnormal?
Although some women's breasts may be slightly different or asymmetrical in size, their contours are always round, smooth and flat. If you see that the appearance of the breasts on both sides is obviously asymmetrical, one side is high, or one side is low, one side is large, one side is small, or one side is bulging and one side is flat, which is abnormal. Breast diseases are all on the swollen side of the breast, such as inflammation, tumor and galactorrhea of the maternal breast. Some breasts are enlarged on one or both sides and droop to the navel or pubic symphysis, such as macromastia.
What are normal breasts like? 2 What are normal breasts like?
Location: Normal breasts are located on both sides of the chest. Due to enlarged glands, adult women have a hemispherical or slightly drooping semi-conical appearance, which bulges on the left and right sides of the chest, between ribs 2 ~ 3 and ribs 6 ~ 7.
Appearance: whether the appearance of the breast is normal or not must be observed from different angles. The appearance and size of normal bilateral breasts are generally symmetrical, and the appearance of bilateral breasts is asymmetrical, or one is high and one is low, or one is large and one is small, or one is flat and one is flat, or one side has breasts and nipples, and the other side has no breast and nipples, which are all abnormal conditions.
Touch: Normal breast touch will not cause tenderness or any discomfort, and it feels moderate and soft. If there is a lump and tenderness when touching the breast, it will move, mostly breast hyperplasia or tumor, which is an abnormal phenomenon. You should go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible.
Other factors affecting breast health
One: A high-fat diet has become a "helper" for breast enhancement.
Two: single and double-income children are at risk.
Three: Bad emotions destroy breast health.
What are normal breasts like? Early symptoms of breast cancer.
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This is a symptom of 95% breast cancer patients. Most of them are single, rare and multiple, and their shapes are round, oval or irregular. Generally, the texture is hard and the boundaries are unclear. Some cases, such as medullary carcinoma, have soft texture and clear boundaries. Mostly in the outer upper quadrant, the mass increases rapidly and can be active in the early stage.
Skin changes
The common symptoms are superficial vein dilatation, dimple sign and orange peel skin. The chest skin of patients with inflammatory breast cancer can be blackened in a large area, which is characterized by induration and thickening, mixed with cancerous plaques and ulcers and manifested as armor-like chest wall. Advanced breast cancer can be superficial ulcers, forming ulcers or cauliflower-like new organisms.
Nipple areola change
For breast cancer in the central area of the breast, the invasion of the large duct can lead to the flattening, depression and retraction of the nipple, and even the nipple falls into the halo, resulting in the deformation of the areola. Paget's disease can cause eczema-like changes in nipple and areola skin.
Nipple discharge
Breast cancer with effusion accounts for 1.3-7% of the total breast cancer, which is more common in intraductal carcinoma and papillary carcinoma. Bloody secretions are more common, followed by serosa, serosa and water samples. Breast cancer with secretion as the only symptom is rare, mostly early intraductal carcinoma and papillary carcinoma. Most breast cancers with secretions are found first and then accompanied by secretions.
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Painless masses appear in the early stage. When breast cancer is complicated with cystic hyperplasia, there may be swelling pain and dull pain. Pain in advanced breast cancer often suggests that the tumor directly invades the nerve.
Axillary lymphadenopathy
As the first symptom of breast cancer, it is rare (except occult breast cancer). Most of them suggest the progression of breast cancer, and it is necessary to exclude the metastasis of other malignant tumors in upper limbs, shoulders, back and chest.