Will breast hyperplasia turn into cancer?

What is breast hyperplasia?

Breast hyperplasia is a benign breast disease caused by abnormalities in the normal development and degeneration process of the breast. In essence, it is a disorder of the normal breast structure caused by hyperplasia and incomplete recovery of the breast substance and stroma. Breast hyperplasia is not a tumor, nor does it have inflammatory changes. It is a benign breast condition. 70-80% of women have varying degrees of breast hyperplasia. Breast hyperplasia is mainly related to endocrine dysfunction. The disorder of the estrogen-progesterone ratio leads to hyperplasia and incomplete recovery of the breast substance, and the abnormal quality and quantity of breast hormone receptors lead to different degrees of hyperplasia in various parts of the breast.

Treatment for breast hyperplasia?

For breast hyperplasia, individualized psychological intervention and drug intervention are mainly given. In the outpatient clinic, I often meet many patients with breast hyperplasia. Some patients even say that they are worried that breast hyperplasia will turn into cancer and ask for breast removal. Whenever I hear such a request, I feel particularly heartbroken. This is indeed because our popular science is not in place, so it causes panic in patients. We don’t have to be afraid of breast hyperplasia. This is an indispensable journey in our growth process. What I say most often is that if the mood is good and the endocrine function is not disordered, everything will be fine. Appropriate psychological counseling and changing lifestyle habits can improve it. If the pain symptoms are very obvious, drugs can be used to improve the symptoms, but they can only improve the pain symptoms and cannot change the fact of breast hyperplasia. Breast hyperplasia is mostly diffuse. Local surgical resection cannot solve the fundamental problem. The disease itself has no indication for surgical treatment. Surgical intervention is mainly to avoid missed diagnosis in the future. However, when patients are found to have cystic hyperplasia during screening, timely surgery is required to prevent early cancer.

What is the probability of breast hyperplasia becoming cancerous?

Even cystic hyperplasia is not to be feared. The canceration rate of breast cystic hyperplasia is only 1%, and cystic hyperplasia will only increase the risk of breast cancer when atypical hyperplasia is found in the biopsy. But even patients with atypical hyperplasia do not have to worry too much, as 80% of patients with atypical hyperplasia will not develop breast cancer in their lifetime.