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List of terms related to Breast health

This article deals with health related issues of Breast.

Cancer

Breast Pain

Infections and inflammations

These may be caused among others by trauma, secretory stasis/milk engorgement, hormonal stimulation, infections or autoimmune reactions. Repeated occurrence unrelated to lactation requires endocrinological examination.

Pre-malignant diseases

Carcinoma in situ, a pre-malignant condition which can progress to a malignant cancer

Malignant diseases

Malignant diseases include:

Breast cancer
Paget’s disease of the nipple, also known as Paget’s disease of the breast

Benign conditions

Benign conditions include:

Congenital disorders
- inverted nipple
- supernumerary nipples/supernumerary breasts (polymazia / polymastia) /duplicated nipples
Aberrations of normal development and involution
- cyclical nodularity
- breast cysts
- fibroadenoma - benign tumor
- gynecomastia (males)
- nipple discharge, galactorrhea
- mammary fistula
Fibrocystic disease / Fibrocystic changes
- cysts
- epithelial hyperplasia
- epithelial metaplasia
- papillomas
- adenosis
Pregnancy-related
- galactocoele

Fibrocystic Breast Condition

Also called: fibrocystic breast disease, Chronic cystic mastitis, Diffuse cystic mastopathy, Mammary dysplasia

Discharge from the nipples

Abnormal nipples

Nipples

Inverted nipples

Inverted nipple

Hygiene

Mastitis

- bacterial mastitis
- mastitis from milk engorgement or secretory stasis
- mastitis of mumps
- chronic intramammary abscess
- chronic subareolar abscess
- tuberculosis of the breast
- syphilis of the breast
- retromammary abscess
- actinomycosis of the breast
- Mondor’s disease
- duct ectasia syndrome
- breast engorgement