Breast lumps can appear in a woman's body at any age. Their appearance may be followed by a severe chest sensation. Other women may notice changes in their skin texture or nipple. Some breast lumps are not visible, but they can be felt when carefully stroked. Some specialist examinations, such as a mammography, are used to detect tiny breast lumps. A hormonal imbalance as women approach menopause is one of the reasons of premenopausal breast lumps (Njeze, 2014). Hormone production, such as estrogen, decreases significantly and eventually ceases as women approach menopause. The lumps appear to be glands deep within the breast tissue. Most of the breast lumps are felt by pressing the hand against it, but some are manifested by their side effects such as pain at the base of breast.
It is a common phenomenon that women approaching menopause tend to have irregular monthly periods. They may experience the imbalanced premenstrual hormone production. Further, the diet of an individual may contribute to the growth of the breast lumps. For instance, taking too much tea or coffee by women approaching menopause may result in retention of fluid in the breasts. The retained fluid form lump like structures in the breast tissues. Also, intake of too many fats may result into the development of the breast lumps. The lumps occur when excess fat is deposited in various parts of the body including the breasts. Accumulation of fats inside the breast tissues causes the development of the breast lumps, especially in women approaching the menopause stage. However, breasts can be infected with the cysts whose occurrence depends on the female hormones released by the body (Yashaswi, Jha, Jaiswal, Bhushan, & Gopal, 2017). The cysts form colonies inside the breast tissues; hence, there is the formation of breast lumps.
References
Njeze, G. E. (2014). Breast lumps: A 21‑year single‑center clinical and histological analysis. Nigerian Journal of Surgery, 20(1), 38-41.
Yashaswi, Y. K., Jha, P. K., Jaiswal, P., Bhushan, V., & Gopal, K. (2017). Breast lump – a clinicopathological study. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences – JEMDS, 6(71), 5023-5026.