How To Learn The Breast Cancer ? Diagnosis, Treatment
Chapter Orientation The breast is a modified skin appendage which has functional and social significance in the females but is rudimentary in the males. Onset of its development in females is linked to menarche as a part of developmental milestones in puberty. The breast responds to hormonal changes in reproductive years of a woman's life-during pregnancy, lactation, and post-menopausal and age-related involution. Like in other organs, the breast too is affected by anomalies, inflammatory diseases, and is the site of occurrence of benign and malignant neoplasms. However, the most important purpose of study of diseases of the breast is early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, a disease that leads other cancers in incidence and mortality in women. Topics for study of breast diseases are discussed in this chapter under following headings: 1) normal structure. 2) inflammatory conditions, 3) benign epithelial proliferations, 4) benign fibroepithelial tumours, and 5) carcin...