Talk:Fibrocystic breast changes

Page name
I'm discussing a possible name change (or redirect rearrangement) for this page at WT:MED Mattopaedia (talk) 05:54, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I suggest to move this to Fibrocystic breast changes because it is not a disease, and this seems to be the most appropriate term currently according to NEJM . If you agree, I could make the move. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:23, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Please see my reply, here. Mattopaedia (talk) 06:01, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Merge proposal
Suggesting to merge benign mammary dysplasia into fibrocystic breast changes and leave a redirect. Reasons:


 * they are synonyms

Richiez (talk) 09:48, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Doing it now, there was not much content in the old article anyway. Richiez (talk) 23:39, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Treatment
I think I will redirect this section to Mastodynia, seems in practice there has never been any difference. Richiez (talk) 19:32, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Iodine?
How can it be that from Iodine & Iodine deficiency you are directed here, but there is no mention on this page?


 * "Causes" should mention it if you can find some sources on PubMed. Possible mechanism of action is affecting TSH and Prolactin which are already mentioned. In Mastodynia iodine and levothyroxine are mentioned as possible (though) unlikely treatments. Richiez (talk) 13:13, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

"Nonproliferative lesion" risk
The text both here and in the cited NEJM article is quite opaque to the lay reader. Please have a go at simplifying the language. LeadSongDog come howl!  17:53, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

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Wiki Education assignment: Osmosis Wikipedia-editing course Summer 2022
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Peer-review Osmosis Wikipedia-editing course summer 2022
The article is very clear and uses helpful terminology and adjectives to describe the condition. Here are a few comments and suggestions by subheadings of the article:

Introduction: simple, straight to the point, and uses good descriptive words. One thing that may be unclear is the cause of changes. Perhaps clarify that there is no one definite causative factor responsible for changes.

Signs & Symptoms: A few sentences can be combined to reduce the use of pronouns like "they". Also, the word lumpy is put in parenthesis in the introduction but not in this section. Just for grammatical consistency it might be helpful to put all or none of the adjectives in parenthesis. There are no references in this section. The part where it says no correlation has been found with breastfeeding should have a citation. Most of the signs and symptoms content could potentially be in a different subsection like "appearances" as it mostly describes the cysts/masses and not actual signs or symptoms a person can see or feel.

Pathophysiology: Simplify and elaborate on second paragraph. A bit wordy.

Diagnosis: More information can be added to help women self-assess their breasts for abnormal findings.

Treatment: Maybe explain what the pain management for cyclical breast pain are.

Prognosis: One question might be how long do cysts stay? Section is very short and might be able to be better placed under a different heading.

Breast Cancer Risk: The cited paragraph is too long and wordy. Please help paraphrase!

Epidemiology: May be helpful if there was a study which included how much of the women who do develop this condition have problems with it such that it is severe enough to require surgery.

References: From a glance, it appears that reference #1 has been used in many parts of the article. It may help to expand the reference list. In addition, there are a few references which are a bit old and could be updated with more credible sources.

Other: One question I had when reading the the article was if this condition coincided with normal changes in breast cell division due to hormones, and if so, then why are only a few cells affective by the cell division? Is it the same mechanism in which cells divide during puberty but only in a select few cells in the breasts? I think the pathophysiology can be made more clear in this way. The pictures require a microbiology background to understand.

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