They can be painful but it's completely harmless. Once called fibrocystic breast disease, the term has largely fallen out of favor because "disease" wrongly implies something is wrong with the breasts ...

Breast cancer lumps typically feel firm or hard. Fibrocystic breast changes are common and usually harmless. Breast cancer, on the other hand, is a dangerous, life-threatening disease that spreads ...

Fibrocystic changes in the breasts are known as fibrocystic breast disease or fibrocystic mastopathy. These are common benign conditions characterized by the presence of lumps, cysts, and fibrous ...

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Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths, following lung cancer. The disease is also the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the United States, reports said.

While it is true that women are more likely to develop breast cancer, men are not exempt from the disease ... are more often found to have benign fibrocystic changes. However, during examination ...

Scott-Conner CE. Diagnosing and Managing Breast Disease During Pregnancy and Lactation. MedGenMed 1(2), 1999. [formerly published in Medscape Women's Health eJournal 2(3), 1997]. Available at ...

The pain may start when the lump presses on nearby nerves. Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare form of the disease that can cause tenderness or burning pain in your breast. The affected area will ...

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All breast cancer treatments have two main goals: To rid your body of as much of the cancer as possible – ideally, all of it To keep the disease from coming back The type of breast cancer you ...