| No-lump breast cancer is invasive and highly | | | | symptoms similar to mastitis that it can be easily |
| aggressive form of cancer. Good news, though it is | | | | considered as such, but unlike mastitis that responds |
| rare. | | | | quickly to medication, inflammatory breast cancer is |
| Inflammatory Breast Cancer does not produce a | | | | very rarely accompanied by fever and antibiotic |
| lump so it can go unnoticed; in fact, it can pass simply | | | | treatment may not help. |
| as inflammation of the breast, which the doctor may | | | | How bad can it get? |
| initially prescribe antibiotics for. However, unlike | | | | The course of treatment between the common type |
| ordinary breast infection that also causes swelling of | | | | of breast cancer and the inflammatory type differs. |
| the breast, Inflammatory Breast Cancer will not | | | | For one, chemotherapy may be started right away |
| respond favorably to antibiotics. It is a form of | | | | among patients suffering from inflammatory breast |
| breast cancer that spreads rapidly; unless detected | | | | cancer, prior to removing the diseased breast. This is |
| earlier, survival is very slim. | | | | to allow the skin of the breast to heal first before |
| Suzanne G. Beaver of Camarillo, 47, dismissed her | | | | the operation. With inflammatory type of breast |
| engorged breasts as pre-menstrual syndrome and | | | | cancer, the skin surrounding the breast can become |
| just got busier at work hoping that her condition | | | | red and swollen; this makes it difficult for doctors to |
| would improve. Three weeks later, she was told she | | | | operate on the breast. |
| had inflammatory breast cancer. | | | | Mastectomy does not guarantee cancer will not recur |
| Dr. Tim Moynihan, a cancer specialist at the Mayo | | | | among women suffering from the inflammatory type. |
| Clinic, cited in one of his published articles the typical | | | | This is primarily the reason why there is a need to |
| danger signs of inflammatory breast cancer: | | | | put the patient on radiation therapy even if |
| 1. The breast can become engorged and tender. | | | | mastectomy has already been performed on the |
| 2. Inflammatory Breast Cancer causes the breast to | | | | breast. Incidence of recurrence can be high due to |
| appear red, enlarged and feel warmto the touch. | | | | the condition of the skin on the breast region. |
| 3. There is an absence of a lump, but the entire | | | | At the first sign of a rash or inflammation on the local |
| breast would swell. | | | | region of the breast, you should take a closer look. |
| Mastitis is a breast disease that causes inflammation | | | | The problem may not be as simple as you think! |
| of the breast and is often accompanied by fever. At | | | | Sometimes, it is better to worry a bit (without |
| the onset, inflammatory breast cancer has the | | | | becoming paranoid), than be sorry about it. |