Classification of mastalgia has also been confusing. This information guide is also available in pdf format to download. Deficient causes include deficiency of qi and blood, and deficiency of yin of liver and kidney. Flaxseed should be considered as a firstline treatment for cyclical mastalgia. Pain from elsewhere usually comes from the chest wall musculoskeletal area. It affects up to 70% of women at sometime in their. Mastalgia is the commonest breast symptom presenting to general practitioners and breast surgeons alike.
Tamoxifen at a dose of 10mg daily is reported to relieve cyclical mastalgia in 70 to 90 per cent and noncyclical mastalgia in 56 per cent of cases. However, breast pain is not a common symptom of cancer. Indeed, it can be considered normal to have some breast discomfort for a few days before a period. How best to address breast pain in nonbreastfeeding women image. Breast pain is a common condition affecting most women at some stage in their reproductive life. Is there a role for surgery in the treatment of mastalgia. To make a full assessment of the cause, all patients require a full history, examination. Mastalgia, or breast pain, is one of the most common breast symptoms experienced by women of reproductive age. Clinical evaluation of mastalgia pain medicine jama surgery. Objectiveto describe an accurate and reproducible method to quantify a patients subjective experience of breast pain.
Virtually all women will experience a degree of pain or discomfort in their breasts at some time of their. The most common type of breast pain is cyclic ie, relating to the menstrual cycle. Mastalgia is resistant to treatment in 6% of cyclical and 26%. Download fulltext pdf download fulltext pdf factors effecting mastalgia article pdf available in breast care 1 march 2016 with 75 reads. Cyclical mastalgia pdf cyclical mastalgia is the most common type. Mastalgia, or breast pain or mastodynia, is globally a com. The degree of soreness, and where and how it is felt, differs for each. Factors effecting mastalgia fulltext breast care 2016, vol.
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