Breast health is a key topic of concern to women, and whether breast disease can be found by touch has always been a place of curiosity and doubt.
To a certain extent, breast disease can be detected by touch. Palpation is an important part of professional breast examination. Experienced doctors can sense some abnormalities in breast tissue by touching the breast. For example, when breast hyperplasia is present, the breast may have granular, nodular, or flaky areas of thickening that may be slightly harder to the touch than normal breast tissue, and these thickenings or nodules may change in size and texture before and after the menstrual cycle. Another example is breast fibroadenoma, which is a common benign tumor. By touching, we can often feel that the mass is round or oval, with clear boundary, smooth surface, tough and elastic texture, large activity, and no adhesion with surrounding tissues.
Breast cancer, a serious threat to women’s health, can sometimes be detected by touch at an early stage. Early breast cancer masses usually have hard texture, unclear boundary and poor mobility, and may be accompanied by mild depression of local skin or nipple changes, such as nipple inversion, nipple discharge, etc., which may also be found during palpation. However, these conditions are not absolute, some of the deeper location of small lumps, or the breast itself is more plump, dense breast tissue in women, it is difficult to detect abnormalities only by touch. Moreover, even if a lump is felt, it can not be diagnosed as breast disease, let alone benign or malignant, because normal breast tissue may be mistaken for a lump under certain physiological conditions.
At the same time, the touch judgment of non-professionals often has a large error. Many women in self-examination, due to lack of professional knowledge and experience, may mistake the normal breast lobules for lumps and panic, or may be unaware of the real lesions. Moreover, the texture, size and structure of breast tissue in different people are different, which further increases the difficulty of judging breast disease by touch.
Therefore, although touch has a certain suggestive effect on the detection of breast diseases, it can not be completely relied on. Women should have regular professional breast examinations, including breast ultrasound, molybdenum target and other examination items, combined with the doctor’s palpation, so as to have a more accurate and comprehensive understanding of breast health, so as to early detection and early treatment when problems arise. Early diagnosis of breast diseases is the key to improve survival rates and protect women’s health, and touch is only a preliminary and limited method.
