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I'm 16. i had nipple eczema a year ago. i didn't go to my doctor. i only used petroleum jelly. and now it's gone. but im scared. can it be paget's?
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No: Padgets disease of the nipple is terminal ductal carcinoma. The nipple represents the confluence of all milk ducts likes spokes on a wheel. Here the turmor cells are in the very end of the ducts, that is the nipple and they spill over the areala to produce an eczema like lesion. Untreated they do not resolve but rather expand out over the breast. Petroleum jelly would have absolutely no effect
Answered 9/28/2016
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