When cancerous or malignant cells start developing in the breast tissues, it leads to the often lethal breast cancer.
The two most common life threatening cancers that attack women all over the world and increase female mortality rates are breast cancer and cervical cancer, exactly in the order written. The figures are really astounding because out of every 7 American women, at least one woman will contract breast cancer during her lifetime.
In the year 2009, it has been estimated that 220,000 women in America will get attacked by breast cancer. In this article I shall discuss the common symptoms of breast cancer that every woman should be aware of.
Symptoms of breast cancer
There might be a small or tiny or medium sized lump in your breast that you will feel whenever you examine your breast or feel your breast after a certain age.
Your nipples might sport scales or they may be inverted or there might be a mass or swelling inside the armpit that is referred to as lymph nose. You might experience pain in your nipple and your affected breast might continue to feel soft and tender persistently. There might also be a bloody or clear nipple discharge at times coupled with swelling of the breast.
In the early stages of breast cancer, at times, there might be no visible symptoms or symptoms at all. After women reach the middle age, they should perform a self breast examination every month in front of the mirror or get a doctor to do it to detect if there is any change or lump in the breasts. If there is anything unusual or unnatural, you must seek immediate medical intervention. If a woman’s nipple is inverted since birth, then you can exclude an inverted nipple as a sign of your contracting breast cancer. But otherwise if your nipple is inverted or flat, it might be a symptom of breast cancer.
You can detect inflammatory breast cancer that is rare and really lethal among breast cancers through breasts that are often hot to touch and always feel warm.
Itchy nipples or breasts, dimpled breasts that look like orange peel, red and blotchy breasts, sudden increase in breast size without rhyme or reason or the size being constant during menstrual cycle are all symptoms of breast cancer.