Dr Öncel Yakar’s comments

Nipple discharge (except for pregnant or breastfeeding women) is a condition that requires General Surgery examination. The discharge may be spontaneous or induced by squeezing, clear or bloody, fluid or thick. It is often due to normal hormonal changes, medications such as birth control pills, hormonal disorders, and benign masses in the milk ducts.

Breast health plays an important role in every woman’s life. This is based on the facts that breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and that early diagnosis and treatment significantly increase life expectancy thanks to screening methods. While stricter follow-up and examination protocols are applied in women with certain risk factors, women with no risk factors should also have breast screening regularly for these reasons. Standard breast screening guidelines recommend that women should perform breast self-examination from the age of 20, and additionally, from the age of 40, breast imaging with clinical examination and mammography once a year. In this section, especially in the twenty-fifth year of her profession and as a female surgeon, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Didem Öncel Yakar answers the questions frequently asked by you. We are with you to manage your routine annual scans and appropriate examination-surgery-treatment processes in our practice in Ataşehir.