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Warning Signs of Breast Cancer and Reoccurence of breast cancer signs
There are different signs and symptoms of breast cancer. One of the first signs or symptoms is feeling a lump in the breast. This lump will feel different then the other breast tissue around it. It is known that more then eighty percent of women discover lumps by checking themselves. A physician can detect breast cancer by giving you a mammogram.
Lumps that are found in lymph nodes located in areas such as the armpits or collarbone can also prove to be breast cancer. Other signs and symptoms of breast cancer may be changes in breast size and changes in the shape of the breast, skin dimpling, nipple discharge and nipple inversion.
Inflammatory breast cancer is also known as IBC. Symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer may include pain, swelling, an orange peel texture to the skin, a warm feeling to the breast and redness of the breast. When cancer cells invade the small lymph vessels in the skin of the breast this presentation resembles skin inflammation known as inflammatory breast cancer.
Another symptom of breast cancer is Paget’s disease of the breast. It is a syndrome that presents skin changes like redness and flaking skin of the nipple. As this advances symptoms may include itching, tingling, sensitivity, pain and burning and on occasion discharge from the nipple. About half of women that are diagnosed with Paget’s will also have a lump in the breast.
Occasionally breast cancer can spread beyond the area where it was detected becoming a metastatic disease. Depending on the location of this metastasis, metastatic breast cancer can cause symptoms.
Common sites of metastasis may include the liver, lung, bone, and brain. Breast cancer can cause unexplained weight loss, fever and chills. Pain in the joints and bones, jaundice and neurological symptoms can sometimes be manifestations of metastatic breast cancer.
These certain symptoms can also be manifestations of other types of illnesses. In many cases most breast disorder symptoms do not turn out to be breast cancer. But the appearance of any signs or symptoms should be taken very seriously, because of breast cancer being able to strike at any age.
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