Breast Cancer Lump = Not Sick

Breast Cancer Lump = Not Sick

All women would be worried if there was a strange lump growing in the breast, which is considered the sexiest organ in the body. But not all lumps are cancer. Who need to be aware that it does not hurt. Why?

"Breast cancer symptoms to look out for it is primarily a painless lump, there is the liquid that comes out in the clear or bloody nipple, even if such milk is okay, and the wound does not heal," said Dr. Suardi Dradjat Ryanto, Spb (K) Onk, Chairman of the Association of Oncology PP Indonesia, in the event the Media Discussion on the breakthrough Breast Cancer Treatment Significantly Increased Life Expectancy, at Resto Tesate, Plaza Senayan, Jakarta.

According to Dr. Dradjat, painless lump in the breast should be wary of the fact that cancer. It is associated with cancer growth pattern slowly and it took a dozen years to become cancerous.

When a lump in your breast pain, meaning the lump grew suddenly so touched the nerve endings, which makes it hurt.

"Unlike cancer grows slowly, so it does not hurt," said a doctor who now serves as Chairman of the Palliative Care Team RS Hasan Sadikin FK Padjadjaran University in Bandung.

Among all existing cancer, breast cancer is one of the most common cancers. According to Dr. Dradjat, in Indonesia alone breast cancer cases continues to rise.

In 2004, there were 15.1 percent of breast cancer cases of all cancer cases there. In 2008, the number increased to 18.5 percent.