Breasts are not organs - Or are they?

Are breasts organs?

Many people ask the question Are breasts organs?

Well, the short answer is no, breasts are not organs, although this issue is still widely debated, but in the official medical literature breasts are not referred to as actual organs of the female body.

Breasts do have certain important functions, like every (other) organ in the body, and that's exactly why the debate whether breasts are organs is kept alive so long. The motivation for breasts not to be categorized as organs is that an organ should have a vital function inside the human body. And although breasts are quite essential to women if they want to have children, one could live perfectly without breasts.

Hui C. Tsou, MD:

The breast is not an organ per se, but a distinctive region of skin and subcutaneous tissue

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