What are the causes of traumatic breast injury?

Traumatic breast injury can be the result of anything that causes damage to the breast tissue. Most traumatic breast injuries do not cause significant side effects, but rare complications can include severe bleeding. No research suggests breast injury can cause cancer.< The most immediate symptom of a traumatic breast injury is the pain. A traumatic breast injury can
cause pain from impact, followed by bruising that may cause aching and discomfort.
It is also possible to experience side effects in addition to bleeding, such as lumps in the breast caused by the injury or the healing process. These lumps may be initially worrisome, but they do not know it's Cancer?

What are the causes of traumatic breast injury?

Some potential causes of trauma to the breast include sports-related injuries, car accidents, and assault.A frequent cause of traumatic breast injury is a car accident. If a person was wearing a seatbelt, the force of the collision could sometimes cause significant trauma to the chest.

If a person is riding in the front seat and the airbag also deploys, they can experience chest trauma, as a result of the blow from the bag. People can also hit their chest against a steering wheel, dashboard, or front seat when there are no airbags.

Injuries are possible from restraint and safety devices, such as seat belts and airbags, but the injuries are typically less severe than if these devices were not in place.

Other potential causes include assault, a fall, or a sports injury.

Breast injury side effects

Trauma to the breast has the potential to cause severe side effects due to surrounding structures within the breast that can be injured.

Examples include injuries of the blood supply to the breast, such as the branches of the internal mammary artery and of the axillary artery that provides blood flow to the breast tissue.

Injury to the major blood supply to the breast can result in swelling and significant blood loss until treatment is received. More commonly, smaller superficial arteries along with veins become injured, leading to more localized injury and less serious bleeding and bruising.

Some people can experience tearing or direct injury to the mammary ducts, which could affect the future or current flow of breast milk. These are rare, but potential, complications associated with breast trauma.

Symptoms

Most traumatic breast injuries will not result in severe side effects. But it is possible that some people could experience severe complications, such as excessive bleeding due to major blood vessel damage.

Symptoms of severe bleeding can include:

• feeling faint
• low blood pressure
• rapid heart rate
• shock due to blood loss

These symptoms require emergency treatment and surgery to ensure blood loss due to the injury is stopped.

Can a breast injury cause cancer?

It is a common misconception that a breast injury could cause cancer. No available research exists that indicates a link between breast injury and cancer.

Some people may believe that a breast injury could lead to cancer because breast injuries can cause a lump to develop after an injury. But a lump could be due to what is called fat necrosis.

Fat necrosis is scarring of dead or injured fatty tissue in the breast that can cause a lump. According to the American Cancer Society, fat necrosis does "not increase a woman's risk of breast cancer."

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A lump in the breast after an injury can also be due to a deep bruise that is known as a hematoma.