In the past, coffee has also been linked to heart disease, fibrocystic breast disease, stomach ulcers, and pancreatic and colorectal cancer.
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Warner examined Way in January 1986 and thought the lump could be fibrocystic disease, which involves benign cysts, or lumps, of breast tissue.
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Most of the rest will be found to have only fibrocystic disease, a thickening of breast tissue, or fibroadenomas, benign tumors that rarely become cancerous.
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"In practicing, I've had women with fibrocystic breast disease tell me that when they reduce their caffeine intake, they feel better,"
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More than 99 % of breast masses in children and adolescents are benign, and include fibrocystic breast changes, cysts, fibroadenomas, lymph nodes, and abscesses.
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About 70 percent of those women received implants for cosmetic reasons, while 30 percent received them for breast reconstruction after surgery for cancer, fibrocystic disease or other conditions.
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A small Framingham company, Symbollon Corp ., was looking for women with her condition, known as fibrocystic breast disease, or FBD, to test a possible treatment.
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Despite widespread publicity given to anecdotal findings that linked caffeine and other methylxanthines to symptoms of fibrocystic breast disease, no well-designed studies have confirmed a clear-cut relationship.
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Instead, she had severe fibrocystic disease, which causes lumps in breast tissue, and had a mastectomy because it became so difficult to tell healthy tissue from potentially cancerous lumps.
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Detractors claim that coffee's caffeine is a stimulant no one really needs and may be responsible for everything from infertility and heart attacks to stomach ulcers and fibrocystic breast disease.
