Spectrum of benign breast disorders in a university hospital

In a period of 2 years, 234 cases of benign breast disorder were studied. Breast pain and modularity was the commonest group (70.1%) followed by fibroadenoma (17.5%). Cyclical mastalgia (61.5%) is more common than non-cyclical mastalgia (38.5%). The age of the patients with cyclical mastalgia was significantly lesser than patients with non-cyclical mastalgia. Cyclical mastalgia was seen only in premenopausal females while non-cyclical mastalgia was also seen in postmenopausal females. Treatment with vitamin E showed 41% response rate with minimal side-effects while treatment with danazol showed 72.1% response rate but was associated with side-effects in one third of the patients.