Does Anyone Have Knowing Of Symptoms Of Inflammatory Breast Cancer?

What Symptoms does Inflammatory Breast Cancer have?

Unlike the other types of breast cancer that are more common, a lump generally does not occur in IBC, and if it does it usually cannot be felt. The disease develops as sheets or nests, which clog up the lymphatic system underneath the skin. Usually, IBC diagnosis takes a long time because the symptoms are often attributed to other diseases, such as an infection.

The Symptoms of Inflammatory Breast Cancer are:
•Breast pain. Since IBC is often mistaken for an infection of the breast, it is treated with antibiotics. Hence, if the inflammation does not subside after a week, you need to either get a referral to a breast cancer specialist or ask for a breast biopsy.
•Breast becoming red. Inflammatory breast cancer's most distinctive characteristic is the redness, which can involve either the whole or part of the breast. Sometimes the redness may come and go.
•Warmth of the breast. The redness may also be accompanied by the area becoming warm.
•Changes of skin in the breast area. The redness on the breast, often is also accompanied by the skin getting the thickness and texture of an orange peel, also referred to as peau d'orange.
•A bruise forming on the breast that does not go away.
•Retraction of the nipple or discharge from it.
•Itching sensation of the breast.
•The breast suddenly swelling up.
•The lymph nodes in the neck or under the arm swelling up.
•Around 50 percent of women afflicted with IBC also have a mass or a lump in their breast, but it usually cannot be detected during breast examination because the breast often becomes harder and larger than normal.
These symptoms usually occur very quickly, within a period of mere weeks.