Causes of orange peel-like changes in breasts

The main reason for orange peel-like changes in the breast is breast cancer. When a patient is diagnosed with breast cancer, the lymphatic vessels will be blocked, which will cause edema in the dermis, resulting in orange peel-like changes in the skin, edema, and obvious sinking of the hair follicles. The epidermis will become particularly hard, and some symptoms of unclear boundaries will appear inside. This is a relatively obvious symptom of breast cancer.

Causes of orange peel-like changes in breasts

Orange peel-like changes in the breast refer to the blockage of the subcutaneous lymphatic vessels in the breast by the tumor when suffering from breast cancer, which causes lymphatic flow obstruction, dermal edema, and "orange peel-like" changes in the skin. The epidermis of the breast skin is swollen and bulging, the hair follicles and follicular pores are obviously sunken, the surface is hard, bumpy, and the boundaries are unclear, and the skin looks like orange peel with many depressions.

Most of the time, it is caused by lymphedema in the local skin after the superficial lymphatic vessels are blocked by breast cancer. The skin of the female breast has orange peel-like changes, or small depressions, shaped like "dimples", which are also early symptoms of breast cancer. Female friends need to pay enough attention to this and get checked early to prevent cancer.

Common symptoms of breast cancer in women

1. Breast lumps 80% of breast cancer patients first present to the doctor with breast lumps. Patients often discover breast lumps accidentally, which are usually single, hard, with irregular edges and a less smooth surface. Most breast cancers are painless lumps, and only a few are accompanied by varying degrees of dull pain or tingling. 2. Nipple discharge The discharge of blood, serous fluid, milk, or pus from the nipple during the non-pregnancy period, or the continued discharge of milk after breastfeeding has stopped for more than half a year, is called nipple discharge. There are many causes of nipple discharge, common diseases include intraductal papilloma, breast hyperplasia, mammary duct ectasia and breast cancer. Unilateral single-hole bloody discharge should be further examined, and should be taken more seriously if accompanied by a breast mass. 3. Skin changes Breast cancer can cause skin changes and present a variety of signs. The most common one is that the tumor invades the Cooper ligament connecting the breast skin and the deep pectoral muscle fascia, causing it to shorten and lose elasticity, pulling the skin in the corresponding area and causing the "dimple sign", that is, a small depression appears in the breast skin, like a dimple. If cancer cells block the lymphatic vessels, "orange peel changes" will occur, that is, many small dot-like depressions will appear on the breast skin, just like orange peel. In the late stage of breast cancer, cancer cells infiltrate into the skin along lymphatic vessels, glandular ducts or fibrous tissue and grow, forming scattered hard nodules in the skin around the main cancer focus, the so-called "skin satellite nodules."