Breast Cancer Symptoms

symptoms: the physical signs of a disease

Why you need to know the symptoms of breast cancer
Breast cancer starts in a cell, which divides and multiplies to an unguarded speed. A small clump of tumor cells are too small to be heard, so that the first stages of breast cancer usually have no symptoms. Cancer can be detected by a mammogram before you can feel a lump, why annual mammography screening is so important. Some benign breast conditions may seem like cancer, so it's good to know the difference, and get a health professional check out lumps of concern.

Understanding symptoms
The classic symptom for breast cancer is found a lump in the breast or armpit. An aggressive type of this disease, inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), grows in nests or sheets of tumor cells that invade the skin and may look like a rash. Making your monthly breast self-exam (BSE) is a great way to familiarize yourself with the texture of your breasts, cyclical changes, size and condition of the skin. Early detection is the best way to protect your health and improve your chances of survival. Please see your doctor or nurse for a clinical breast examination (CBE) If you have a question about a change in your breasts.

The symptoms you may see or hear

Symptoms seen on chest Imaging Some symptoms of breast cancer (metastatic) advanced
Phase 4, or metastatic breast cancer is the most advanced stage of this disease. Metastatic breast cancer is defined as having spread beyond the breast and armpit lymph nodes to other parts of the body. pain (bone metastases), shortness of breath (lung metastases) descent headaches of appetite (liver Metastases) unintended weight loss (liver Metastases), neurological pain or weakness (may be cerebral metastasis) of bone Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) – Aggressive and unusual symptoms
A type of breast cancer that does not appear in lumps called inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). This aggressive tumor grows in sheets instead of lumps and invades surrounding skin, much like a rash. It will not respond to antibiotics and topical creams or should be treated very quickly. Symptoms: a sudden increase of the mature size (like a cup of dimensions in a couple of days) itching of the skin of the breast that is continuous and not relieved by pills or creams a color change of the breast skin, resulting in pink, red, or areas of dark colour of the breast is too warm to the touch, or more difficult or unusual pain usually solid, which occurs outside the regular cycle sometimes a change in the skin, similar to the skin to skin ulcers a chest orange (later IBC) Symptoms of breast cancer recurrence
Recurrence of breast cancer is classified as a local, regional, and distant. A distant recurrence is the same as the breast cancer (metastatic) advanced. A local recurrence is cancer that has returned after treatment, or close to the original location of the tumor. Can often be effectively treated. Regional recurrence can be in the muscles of the chest wall, or lymph nodes located below your sternum, just above the clavicle and around the neck.

Local symptoms of recurrence: a small lump or a rash in scar excision, on or under the skin regional recurrence of symptoms: swollen lymph node in the armpit that where cancer was previously removed swollen lymph nodes above the collarbone or sides of the neck, a new tumor is not an occurrence
A new tumor appears and you have a health condition different from the original breast cancer, it was not deemed a recurrence. Is called a new primary and can occur in a different area of the breast that originally was affected, or in the opposite breast. A new cancer is diagnosed and treated independently from the original tumor.

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Source:
National Institutes of Health. Medline Plus. Breast cancer. Symptoms. Updated: 4/3/2007

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