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Benign Breast Disease (BBD) is a term with unspecific reference. It has utility in that it denies the presence of cancer, and probably any but remote threat to life. However, the term “disease” should include some element of discomfort or indicate an association with threat to life (malignancy). Thus, the term benign breast disease should not be applied to trivial changes present in the majority of the population, which do not have a negative impact on the quality of life. It will be impossible to define this broad-sweeping phrase (BBD) more tightly, and it probably should remain as a term with broad and ill-defined reference. For that reason, it should specifically not be used to implicate an elevated risk of carcinoma developing in the patient without specification of magnitude and nature of risk assessment.
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Page, D.L., Dupont, W.D. (1992). Benign Breast Disease: Links to Risk of Cancer. In: Dogliotti, L., Sapino, A., Bussolati, G. (eds) Breast Cancer: Biological and Clinical Progress. Developments in Oncology, vol 69. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3494-5_13
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