Breast cancer and small breasts

First of all, screening for breast cancer just as important for women with small breasts! Even if you have really really small ones!

By the size of the breasts nobody can tell who has higher chance of developing cancer.

Breast cancer cannot develop in fat cells but only in the ducts of milk glands. 99%of women have milk ducts so every woman has some degree of chance to develop it. If you have and ever had bigger breasts, like a C cup or above (although I doubt it if you are visiting this site ;) and your BMI is in the higher range you probably have more fat tissues in your breasts since you have it all over your body as well.

On the other hand if you are very lean and still have a C cup or above (and of course your breasts are natural and not after plastic surgery) it is possible that your breasts includes more ducts of milk glands than fat tissues. In this case you might have a higher chance of developing breast cancer since you have more ducts. But this is just plain math and it doesn’t calculate with other very important factors like heredity and lifestyle.

For the rest of us like 32A’s or AA’s we don’t have that much of anything. We don’t have that much of fat tissues and milk glands.

But remember! We still have them and we still have a chance of developing breast cancer! Smaller breasts if they have less milk ducts maybe have smaller chance to develop breast cancer but it is still a chance, unfortunately.

You can wonder how can you tell whether you have fat tissues or ductile tissues if you have small breasts?

The only way to tell it is by mammogram. It shows there if your breasts mainly consist of fat or ducts. So even if you have small breasts, your whole breasts can build up mainly by ducts. Normally you start to take mammograms when you reach 40 year’s old, but any concern can change that. That’s why it is so important to do a monthly check up at home.

For us, small-breasted gilrs, it is quite easy, and it is kind of nice since we have small breasts that we can feel any changes kind of easier. And you know: the earlier the better…

Concerns you must know about:

1. Any type of lumps or swelling in breast or armpit.
2. Discharge from nipple. (Yellowish, greenish, bloodyand even clear)
3. Change in texture of breasts skin (like an orange peal).
4. Change in color of breast or nipple, areola.
5. Change in sizes of breasts or one breast.
6. Feeling warm, hot sensation of breasts.
7. Itching of breasts.
8. Pain in breasts. My doctor said normally pain is not a sign of breast cancer!

I had a discharge from my right nipple and had pain on the lower part of my breasts. My doctor did a physical exam and ordered either an ultrasound or mammogram. She told me that the specialist would decide which one to do. She decided that she will start with an ultrasound and will see.

Thanks God everything was OK but she was still concerned about the discharge. She took sample and sent it to the lab. The results turned out to be just fine and she was sure that I don’t need a mammogram.
When I was leaving she told me to put on more weight otherwise next time they will not be able to do the mammogram..

Wow! That made me feel embarrassed for a second but at the end we both laughed. You have to have a sense of humor I guess. She said a good technician could handle the tiniest breasts too. They even do mammograms sometimes for men!

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