How to Recognize Breast Cancer Symptoms

By Antin. What do you know about breast cancer symptoms? Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer in women and the second most common cause of cancer death in women in the U.S. So, it is very important to have good knowledge about breast cancer symptoms in order to diagnose the cancer in early stage. As other cancer, the prognosis will increase significantly if the treatment did in early stage.

When learning to recognize what the breast cancer symptoms are, you empower yourself to find out what’s going on with your body. You might find out it’s not cancer. You’ve lessened the burden of worry because you recognized a possible symptom, and bravely forged ahead to get diagnosed. You have a much better chance reaching the goal of recovery and long-term survival because you recognize it in early stage.Your knowledge can also help friends and family by giving the extremely valuable gift of early detection and diagnosis.

There are three main symptoms of breast cancer; lump or thickness in the breast, change in the breast skin’s appearance, and liquid discharge from the nipple. Remember these symptoms may appear in other non cancerous disease in breast, so you have to do further examination to diagnose whether it is breast cancer or not.

Other symptoms that may appear in breast cancer case are Swollen or painful lymph nodes in the armpits or just above the collar bone, constant pain on one side is sometimes a sign of breast cancer, asymmetry can be a symptom of cancer, an itchy breast, and a breast that constantly feels warm or hot to the touch.

In advanced case of breast cancer are weight loss, bone pain, skin ulceration and swelling of one arm. These symptoms are manifestations of metastatic breast cancer. Some patient with metastatic breast cancer also reported fevers or chills, jaundice or neurological symptoms. Remember, learning the breast cancer symptoms may be a key to save your life.


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