Benign at breast, which specialist should I visit?

Hi all, my cousin has benign at her breast.

Which specialist should she visit?
1) Oncology-Breast and Gynecologic Cancers or
2) Breast-General Surgery

Well, when i try to call to hospital appointment center they try to refer me to Breast-General Surgery 2). Some other friends go to 2) as well.

Logically these surgeon Dr will tend to do surgery? And in my thinking oncology Dr is more expert to know whether it need surgery or not?

Benign Breast Disease is just that, benign. Your Cousin must have already seen either a Doctor or Surgeon to have this diagnosed! I had a lump, saw my Physician, he sent me to the General Surgeon. He did a aspiration of the lump, explaining if he got fluid, fine, if he did not, straight to Surgery. He got fluid and removed it. Six months later the lump, which was a cyst, came back and so they operated removed a 'cluster of cysts'. Therefore I have or had Fibrocystic Breast Disease. As the breast is benign, why do you need Oncology which is for malignancy!

Benign means not harmful. You could go to a breast specialist physician (look in the yellow pages) and they might be able to remove some benign cysts by aspiration with a needle. A female physician might be more agreeable to do this. Sometimes it is worrisome to have a lot of benign lumps and constantly worry if one is cancer or not or if a new one has sprung up that is cancer.I am speaking of the U.S. specifically, not sure about other countries.