, Another type of breast cancer symptoms rather than as a lump which occurs in breast cancer in general. This type of breast cancer is attacking vessels and nodes getak inflammatory breast. Is this cancer? What are the symptoms and how to handle? The following description …

Inflammatory breast cancer is a form of acceleration or the acceleration of breast kanke usually not detected by mammogram or ultrasound.

Is a type of breast cancer rare, only the range 1% – 3% of all breast cancer incidence. Patients will experience breast pembekakan and inflammation. This is caused by the cancer cells block the lymph vessels (lymph nodes) under the breast skin.

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Symptoms of Inflammatory Breast Cancer

In contrast to the symptoms of breast cancer in general, inflammatory breast cancer have no symptoms of the lump. The disease appears as a nest or lining a closed system or lymph nodes under the skin. Cage symptoms regarded as symptoms of other diseases, so the diagnosis often requires a long time.

Symptoms include:

1. Breast pain. Often inflammatory breast cancer diagnosis wrong and considered a breast infection and given antibiotics as a treatment. If during a week of antibiotics have no effect, a biopsy will be done.
2. Skin changes in the breast area. Usually turn red or pink with texture and thickness of orange peel (peau d’orange).
3. Breast bruise ongoing.
4. Swollen breasts suddenly.
5. Itching in the breast.
6. Putting drawn into and out of fluid.
7. Pembekakan lymph nodes under the armpit or neck.

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Handling Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Inflammatory breast cancer is an aggressive cancer that can spread quickly. Treatment include:

1. Surgery. If the inflammatory breast cancer has not spread, a mastectomy can be done to remove the tumor. However, please note that a mastectomy would increase the chances of return of this type of cancer because inflammatory breast cancer associated with lymph node on the skin and the skin sewn back after surgery.
2. Chemotherapy. Often given before surgery or neoadjuvant therapy is to reduce the number of existing tumors and reduce the risk of cancer recurrence.
3. High Dose Chemotherapy / Bone Marrow Transplant. Researchers studying high-dose chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplantation or nucleus of cells (bone marrow or stem cell Transplantation) to deal with inflammatory breast cancer.
4. Radiation. Often given after radiation or chemotherapy and surgery