Breast Cancer - The Bigger the Breast, the More Likely You Are to Get It?

Nov 25, 2024 at 3:46 AM

In order to pay for society and the family, because of raising offspring, and be admired, respect for women, but also because this is considered to be the rightful burden, in the minds of others to set up the image of the inverted, unaware that women in the face of a number of diseases, indeed extraordinarily vulnerable!

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1, “the first female killer” - breast cancer

Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the glandular epithelial tissue of the breast, and it is one of the most common malignant tumors that seriously affects women's physical and mental health and even endangers their lives, with a higher incidence in women before and after menopause.

In 2020, for the first time, female breast cancer will surpass lung cancer as the most common cancer worldwide, accounting for about 17.1% of new cancer cases. The number of new cases will reach 2.26 million, surpassing the 2.2 million cases of lung cancer. It can be called “the first female killer”.


2, the bigger the breast the more likely to get breast cancer?

Why is breast cancer called “breast cancer” rather than “breast cancer” First of all, let's understand the structure of the breast. Breasts are mainly composed of glands, ducts, adipose tissue and fibrous tissue, and the vast majority of breast cancer occurs in the ductal system.

What we usually call big breasts and small breasts, that is, the difference in breast volume is mainly determined by the fat tissue, the more fat in the chest, the larger the female breasts, but the fat tissue is not cancerous. In a word, there is no scientific evidence that big breasts are prone to breast cancer.

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3. What are the symptoms of breast cancer?

◆Painless lump in the breast

◆Nipple discharge

◆ Painless breast lumps ◆ Nipple discharge

◆ Painless breast lumps ◆ Nipple overflow ◆ Skin changes

◆ Enlarged lymph nodes in armpit, lymph nodes in neck


4. So what kind of women are prone to breast cancer?

It is already clear that the occurrence of breast cancer is related to factors such as family history, age of menarche, age of first childbearing, number of births, hormone use, lack of physical activity, etc. However, from an overall point of view, the biggest risk factor for breast cancer is actually the number of dense glands.

The relationship between the two is breast cancer incidence: those with more dense glandular tissue in the breast > those with more fatty tissue in the breast. And women with small breasts have a higher probability of dense glandular, from this point of view, women with small breasts have a higher risk of breast cancer, but this is not absolute.

Want to prevent breast cancer, just by looking at the size is not reliable, do a good job of breast cancer prevention, big breasts and small breasts are not afraid!