Friday, November 11, 2011

Identify the characteristics of breast cancer


As the name implies, 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 these bumps are small, but gradually enlarged and finally attached to the skin or cause changes in breast skin or nipple.

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

* Lump in your breast change shape / size
* Breast skin to change color: from pink to brown to orange peel
* Into the nipple (retraction)
* One of your nipples suddenly loose / missing
* If the tumor is large, the pain appeared relapsing-remitting
* Breast skin feels like fire
* Breast bleeding or other fluid, when you do not breastfeed

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.

As for the symptoms of advanced breast cancer, the following is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

Advanced breast cancer is very easily recognizable by knowing operbilitas Heagensen criteria as follows:

* There is extensive edema of the breast skin (over 1 / 3 area of ​​breast skin);
* Presence of satellite nodules on the skin of the breast;
* Type of breast cancer karsinimatosa mastitis;
* There parasternal model;
* There is a supraclavicular nodule;
* Presence of arm edema;
* Presence of distant metastases;
* And there are two of the signs of locally advanced, namely skin ulceration, skin edema, skin fixed to the wall of the thorax, axillary lymph node 2.5 cm in diameter, and axillary lymph nodes attached to each other.

A number of signs above is indeed a characteristic of breast cancer. However, if you experience one or more of the above, not necessarily you suffer from breast cancer. Try to consult your doctor and do a test to mammography. Later the doctor will analyze the resulting mammograms and provide suggestions for you.

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