Fibrocystic breast disease is the most common breast disease in gynecologic and radio-oncologic practice.
Fibrocystic breast disease is described as cystic lesions, anechoic with acoustic enhancehement posteriorly, round or ova, sharply marginated common benign changes involving the tissues of the breast, on breast ultrasound examination (19).
IODINE AND THE LESSONS FROM
FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE AND BREAST CANCER
The incidence of
fibrocystic breast disease in American women was 3 percent in the 1920s.
It seems that knowledge about iodine and
fibrocystic breast disease is spreading through the general population faster than through the medical profession.
Sometimes this is due to previously having one breast larger than another, having benign,
fibrocystic breast disease, or the result of previous surgery, radiotherapy etc.
There is evidence that vitamin E may reduce the size of cysts in women with
fibrocystic breast disease, which is a risk factor for breast cancer.
Breasts: Tests on twins suggest that long-term avoidance of caffeine can help
fibrocystic breast disease, reducing tenderness and lumpiness.
Your doctor has just diagnosed you with
fibrocystic breast disease. Rather than take conventional medicines such as painkillers and steroids, you plan to utilize alternative medicine.
Most people in the United States have never heard of fibrocystic change, or
fibrocystic breast disease, as it has also been called in the past.
An informal study suggested that abstinence of caffeine might alleviate the symptoms of
fibrocystic breast disease, a condition of benign fibrous lumps in the breast.
Fact: In the early 1980s, women with
fibrocystic breast disease - a condition characterized by painful but noncancerous breast lumps - were told they could control or cure it by removing from their diets all methylxanthines, a group of compounds that includes caffeine.