Early Onset Early Stage Early Inflammatory Breast Cancer Rash
This video shows photos of inflammatory breast cancer.
Early onset early stage early inflammatory breast cancer rash. Change in nipple appearance. I knew something was off. An early sign of inflammatory breast cancer is discoloration of the breast. Without treatment i was told i had six months to live.
I was diagnosed with stage iv inflammatory. Sudden swelling of the breast. Pain in the breast. Early detection of inflammatory breast cancer requires the understanding of symptoms.
Inflammatory breast cancer stages stage 3. By the time symptoms appear it is already advanced. A bruise on the breast that doesn t go away. Accumulation of fluid within the breast appears as an early warning sign of inflammatory breast cancer.
The skin may appear pitted like an orange peel and nipple changes such as inversion flattening or dimpling may occur. Early ibc symptoms may include persistent itching and the appearance of a rash or small irritation similar to an insect bite. Yet i was diagnosed with late stage inflammatory breast cancer. For this reason inflammatory breast cancer is always stage 3 or 4 at the time of diagnosis.
The skin of the breast appears pink reddish purple or yellow bruise. Check out the symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer with images. Interestingly the signs and symptoms of ibc are quite common. Which looked more like a mild sunburn than a rash.
Symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer. You may notice that your nipple appears unusually flat or it might be inverted appearing depressed rather than protruding from the front of the breast. However these signs and symptoms are most often associated with benign breast conditions. Symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer may include.
Because inflammatory breast cancer does not look like typical breast cancer it is never diagnosed in the early stages. It may save their life or a friend s. It does not show up on a mammogram and a breast lump is rarely present. The breast typically becomes red swollen and warm.
Nipple changes and enlarged lymph nodes inflammatory breast cancer can cause nipple changes as an early warning sign of disease. A small section may appear red pink or purple. This is a type of cancer that develops without a telltale lump ibc can best be described as sheets of cancer some doctors call it nests of cancer men if you are reading this you must forward this to the women in your life. Early symptoms of breast cancer from women who experienced them.
With treatment my prognosis was also quite poor likely only a few years. Inflammatory breast cancer inflammatory breast cancer ibc is a rare and very aggressive type of breast cancer that tends to spread quickly even in the relatively early stages. Locally advanced cancer this means it has spread to nearby lymph nodes.