Previously known as “fibroadenosis or fibrocystic disease”.
Symptoms:
Cyclical mastalgia
Signs:
- Focal or diffuse nodularity
- Benign focal nodularity varies with the cycle.
- Diffuse nodularity is normal
- Persistent focal nodularity- needs to exclude carcinoma by full investigation
Symptomatic management:
- primrose oil (rarely used now)
- danazol (100 mg/day)
- tamoxifen (10 mg/day)