Breast Cancer: Symptoms and Screening

Question 1

Why are 5th of the month checks no longer recommended?

Answer 1

Because you need to self-check at different points in your menstrual cycle.

Question 2

By what two methods do most women discover a breast abnormality?

Answer 2

1) Self-check

2) Screening mammography

Question 3

What are the possible symptoms of breast cancer?

Answer 3

1) Hard, sometimes painless, mass that can be circular or have irregular borders.
2) Redness, inflammation, or pain of the skin of the breast.
3) Swelling of the lymph nodes in the arm pit or above the clavicle
4) Bloody (or other) discharge from the nipple
5) Dimpling of the skin of the breast.

Question 4

What are the steps in diagnosing breast cancer?

Answer 4

1) Self-check
2) Mammography
3) Biopsy
4) MRI
5) PET Scan

Question 5

Why have mammograms recently been under scrutiny?

Answer 5

For false positives

Question 6

For which population has the incidence rate increased due to mammography?

Answer 6

White, upper-middle class women

Question 7

Which population has the highest number of false positives?

Answer 7

White, upper-middle class women

Question 8

In which two structures in the breast are epithelial cells located?

Answer 8

1) Lobules (make milk)

2) Ducts (channels that take milk to the nipple)

Question 9

What are the channels that take milk to the nipple?

Answer 9

Ducts

Question 10

What are the structures in breasts that make milk?

Answer 10

Lobules

Question 11

Into which lymph nodes does the lymphatic system of the breast drain into?

Answer 11

The lymph nodes under the armpit.