ABSTRACT

Current statistics suggests that approximately 70 percent of women and girls (post pubertal) experience breast pain once in their lifetime [1]. Mastalgia can be defined as pain or discomfort in breasts [2]. Out of the established cancer patients approximately 0.3-2 % of the patients will present with mastalgia to the outpatient department. As awareness for breast cancer among females increases, mastalgia has become one of the commonest presenting symptoms seen by a breast surgeon [3]. Mastalgia could be cyclical or non-cyclical which further can be divided into unilateral or bilateral. Cyclical mastalgia means tenderness over breast experienced in sync with the menstrual cycle of the female which can be either bilateral or unilateral and can be caused due to increase in swelling in the breast tissue. While noncyclical mastalgia typically presents unilaterally and the tenderness is more localised rather than diffuse as seen in cyclical mastalgia. Commonest age of presentation with non-cyclical mastalgia is seen the age group of 40-50 years.
Publication date: 15/02/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.2.1001