Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer of the breast tissue. This is the most common type of cancer that affects women. Men can also develop breast cancer, although less likely than 1 in 1000. The most common treatment is with surgery and if necessary followed by chemotherapy or radiation.

Clinical Symptoms of Breast Cancer

Clinical symptoms of breast cancer may include:

Lump in the breast

Usually a painless lump in the breast. The lump was small initially, the longer it will be even greater, and then attached to the skin or cause changes in the skin of the breast or the nipple.

Erosion or the nipple eczema

Skin or nipple becomes pulled in (retracted), pink or brown to be edema of the skin to look like an orange peel (peau d'orange), contract, or ulcers (ulcers) in the breast. Borok was the longer it will be even greater and deeper so that it can destroy the entire breast, often malodorous, and bleed easily.

Discharge (discharge Nipple)

Nipple discharge is the discharge from the nipple spontaneously and not normal. Discharge is normal in the event in women who are pregnant, breastfeeding and contraceptive pill users. A woman should be alert if the nipple discharge of bloody watery liquid with red or brown, out on his own without having to massage the nipple, continues, only in one breast (unilateral), and liquids other than breast milk.