Breast health book pdf

At present, there is no general popular science PDF named "Breast Health Book" that is officially released in China. The relevant documents circulating on the market are mainly divided into three categories - authorized/pirated scans of books of the same name from regular publishers, self-made popular science manuals from the Breast Department of tertiary hospitals, and content compiled by private organizations/marketing accounts. Only the first two categories have reference value, while the latter generally has errors and omissions, and is not recommended as a basis for health decisions.

I used to work as a science popularization volunteer in the Breast Department of a tertiary hospital for half a year. I met too many patients who came for consultation with wild PDFs. The one who impressed me the most was a 28-year-old girl who came with a printed document and said that "massage can eliminate three types of nodules." I flipped through that kind of wild PDF, and it didn’t even have a publishing agency to sign it. The second half of the book was full of advertisements for a certain massage oil, and it had no reference value at all.

Oh, by the way, not all unofficial PDFs are useless. When I was sorting out patient materials, I saw a PDF of the self-made popular science manual of Fudan Cancer Hospital that was circulated. The contents were collected by clinicians, and they asked questions that everyone asked every day: "Is the pain in my aunt's front pain hyperplasia?" "Can grade 3 nodules become cancerous?" The writing is straightforward and there are no obscure terms. This kind of book is more practical than many officially published books. If you really want to find reliable electronic science popularization, go directly to the official website of the Breast Disease Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, or the public accounts of top-ranked breast departments such as Peking Union Medical College, Fudan Cancer Institute, and Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital. If you reply to "Breast Science Popularization" in the background, you can basically get a free manual that has been reviewed by doctors. It is much more reliable than the wild documents you find by flipping through ten pages on a search engine.

Many of the old PDF content circulating now are outdated. The most common misunderstanding is "wearing underwired underwear can cause cancer." Last time I went to a lingerie store with my best friend, the shopping guide used this statement to promote non-wired underwear. In fact, studies have long confirmed that as long as the underwired underwear does not make you breathless, it will not affect breast health at all. On the contrary, the loose underwired underwear does not have enough support, and girls with big breasts may easily suffer from ligament strain and pain if they wear it for a long time. There is also the misunderstanding that "eating soy products can induce breast cancer." This misunderstanding has been spread for almost ten years. Phytoestrogens and human estrogen are not the same thing at all. Current mainstream research shows that eating soy products in moderation, such as soy milk and tofu, can also reduce the risk of breast cancer. Of course, some schools of traditional Chinese medicine recommend that patients with grade 4 or above nodules should avoid things with high estrogen content in animals such as royal jelly and snow clams. It is not wrong. There is no need to compete, as long as it suits your physical condition.

Speaking of which, there is also an interesting disagreement about whether to intervene in breast hyperplasia. The conventional wisdom of Western medicine is that 90% of breast hyperplasia is physiological, that is, your breast glands (to put it bluntly, like a bunch of grapes) are a little edema before your menstrual period, which will disappear when your aunt comes. You don’t need to take medicine at all. Staying up less late and being less angry is better than anything else. If the pain is severe, it can be relieved by taking a pill of ibuprofen. However, the veteran Chinese medicine doctor I followed felt that if the swelling and pain are so severe that it affects sleep and even makes it painful to put on underwear, you can also try prescriptions to soothe the liver and regulate qi, or moxibustion Ganshu. We have done a small-scale follow-up before, and almost 60% of the patients who have tried it reported that the swelling and pain have indeed been relieved. As long as you don’t blindly follow unknown folk remedies, you can actually try them. There is no need to oppose the methods of Chinese and Western medicine.

Last month, a 22-year-old girl came to the doctor. She took a PDF from an unknown year and said it said, "Under 25 years old do not need to have a breast examination." It turned out that it had been half a year since she felt a lump, and when she came to check it was a grade 3 nodule. Fortunately, it was benign, but it took a long time to undergo minimally invasive surgery. The current screening guidelines have been updated a long time ago. No matter how old you are, as long as you often have inexplicable pain, feel lumps, or have a family history of breast cancer, it is recommended to have a breast B-ultrasound every year. If you are over 40 years old, plus an annual mammography, it is more useful than reading a hundred PDFs to compare symptoms.

To put it bluntly, it doesn’t matter at all whether you can find the “Breast Health Book” pdf. Many people search for this just for peace of mind. If they feel really uncomfortable, they go directly to the hospital for a B-ultrasound. It costs more than 100 yuan and the results can be obtained in half an hour. It is much more reliable than guessing at home based on popular science. The breast itself is a very sensitive organ. Occasional swelling and pain and small nodules are normal. Don’t be frightened and anxious by the messy content, and don’t ignore it and put it off without checking. That’s enough.