Recognizing The Symptoms, Characteristics, and Signs of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is a disease caused by the growth of cancer cells in the breast area. This disease mostly affects women, but men can also be affected. Breast cancer is a type of cancer with the second highest number of sufferers in the world. While the rates of death, type of cancer is the fifth largest cause of death in the world.
Early signs of breast cancer was the discovery of a lump in the breast that feels different. If pressed, the lump is not painful. Initially this small bump, but gradually enlarged and finally attached to the skin or cause changes in the breast skin or nipple.

Here among other things you should note that a symptom of breast cancer:

Clinical symptoms of the common occurrence of breast cancer occur are as follows:

1. Lumps in your breasts change shape and are usually painless and small size. But after a long time and stick to the skin dilate and cause discoloration of the nipple or breast.

2. Eczema or erosion of the nipple. Next, the skin or nipple interested into (retraction), pink or brownish color to the edema that causes the orange peel, wrinkle and become ulcers. Ulcers enlarged and deep until he could damage the breast. Foul and bloody. Other characteristics are the occurrence of bleeding at the nipple. Pain / pain when the tumor is large and ulcers arise. Then there is enlargement of the axillary lymph nodes, occurred pembekakan in the arm.Then there was the spread of cancer throughout body.Cancer advanced breast very easily identified.Cancer advanced breast very easily identified. Namely the existence of the breast skin is quite extensive, and there are satellite nodules. Presence of edema in arms, far metastases, skin ulceration, skin edema, skin fixed. The existence of axillary lymph nodes.

3. breast skin changed color: from pink to brown to orange peel.

4. Nipple discharge or a discharge from the third fluid.Symptoms is unfair discharge and spontaneous than the so-called white or nipple discharge. Why is this fluid is said is not normal, not least because the normal fluid only out on pregnant women, nursing or taking pills kontrasepsi.Ciri this fluid, watery bloody fluid, red or brown, out alone without massaged. Exit by continuously in one breast. For those of you who have these traits must be alert and see a doctor immediately to prevent cancer is getting worse.

5. One of your nipples suddenly loose / missing

6. When the tumor is large, the pain appears that relapsing-remitting.

7. breast skin feels like fire.

8. breast bleeding or other fluid, when you are not breastfeeding.

Signs of breast cancer the most obvious is the presence of ulcers (ulcers) in the breast. Over time, these ulcers will become increasingly large and deep so that it can destroy the entire breast. Other symptoms are Breast often foul smelling and bleed easily.

For Breast Cancer Symptoms of advanced stage, the following are;

1. Broad section of the edema breast skin (over 1 / 3 area of ​​breast skin).

2. There are satellite nodules section of breast skin.

3. The existence of parasternal model.

4. Supraclavicular nodules.

5. There is edema of the arm.

6. There are distant metastases.

7. There is presence of two of the signs of locally advanced, namely skin ulceration, skin edema, skin fixed to the wall of the thorax, axillary lymph node diameter is 2.5 cm, and axillary lymph nodes attached to each other.

The sign above the characteristics of breast cancer. But, if you experience one or more of the above, you are not necessarily suffering from breast cancer. Immediately consult your doctor and do a test to mammography. Later the doctor will analyze the resulting mammograms and give advice to you.

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