What Are the Major Causes of Breast Lumps?
There are many causes of breast lumps and some of them are harmful – like it may be painful or dangerous and some causes are harmless. The category of breast lumps includes injuries, infections, non cancerous growth and also cancer. In United States, majority of women dies with breast cancer only. It is the second leading cause of the death among women. But nowadays the rate of the death due to breast cancer is declining. The fall in the graph of the death rate due to breast cancer may be due to the facts like earlier detection of breast cancer as well as improved treatments of the breast cancer. Usually most of the breast lumps are harmless (benign) but each and every lump must be get checked by a doctor to establish or exclude the diagnosis of cancer. Breast lumps are also caused by infections which are known as mastitis. Mastitis is very common among the women especially who is lactating their baby. While lactating when the skin of the nipples is injured or cracked then the bacteria
