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But, almost 90% of all breast masses are caused by benign lesions (non cancerous) and not malignancy. Some of the other symptoms of breast cancer include:- • Lumps in the armpits/collar bone • Change in texture of the breast skin such as redness, dimpling, crusting or puckering • Change in size / shape of breast • Nipple inversion • Bloody discharge (unilateral) from the nipple • Paget’s disease of the breast Pain is not a reliable symptom as it could also indicate other health conditions. Symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer include:- • Pain • Swelling, • Warm feeling • Red color throughout breast, • Orange-peel texture of the skin on the breasts (peau d'orange) Sometimes the disease is metastatic and would spread across to other parts of the body such as bone, brain, liver, lung and brain via the lymphatic system or blood vessels. The symptoms would then include:- • Weight loss • Chills / fever • Joint / bone pain Metastasis mostly involves bones, especially the vertebrae and the long bones of the ribs, arms and legs. When cancer spreads to the bones, it eats its way into the healthy bones to cause weak spots where the bones can easily break. Hence aching or weak bones are common in breast cancer patients and it is common for many of them to use a wheel chair. Many of the symptoms of breast cancer are non specific and can also present in other breast diseases such as fibroadenoma, mastitis and benign breast disease. |
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Posted by:
BenedictPaulC
Posted on: 05/03/2012 Saying incidence of breast cancer [or any disease] is high in western world is meaningless. In India, we do not have proper statistics in any hospital. We do not have well established Biostatistics dept in any of our hospitals/universities. Moreover, we do not have any proper centralized system of collecting such data as they have in the US as NIH. Apart from this, still more than 65% of our population are in rural areas where basic treatment itself is at stake. So, we do not have any rights whatsoever to comment on the western world.
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dr.anita
Posted on: 09/20/2009 I agree.I have been conducting training programmes for women on early detction of breast cancer.Main focus has been breast sed to about 9000 women over the past 3 years.If there is nothing much we can do for prevention then early detection has to be the main focus. dr.anita khokhar.M.D. |
