Inflammatory Breast Cancer.

By Antin. Inflammatory breast cancer is a special kind of advanced breast cancer. Inflammatory breast cancer has no lump or mass that can be felt. It is a very rare and dangerous type of breast cancer. Though we see an increasing number of cases, it is rare, accounting for only 1 to 4 percent of all breast cancers. In inflammatory breast cancer there is infiltration of the skin and lymph vessels of the breast by cancer cells. It cannot be detected by self breast examination and mammogram.

Occasionally, the patient and even the doctor will mistake it for a simple infection. Probably their doctors were not breast specialists and did not know about inflammatory breast cancer. After take antibiotics, it doesn’t getting better. It also doesn’t get worse and that’s the tip-off: an infection will always get better or worse within a week or two - it rarely stays the same.

One of inflammatory breast cancer patients was breast-feeding and developed what her doctor thought was lactational mastitis or inflammation of the breast brought about by breast-feeding. It never cleared up and did not hurt much - there was no fever sign of infection. It hadn’t gone away or gotten worse in six months.

Another patient, not breast-feeding, noticed that one breast had suddenly become larger than the other; there was also redness and swelling. The doctors at first thought the women had breast infections.

An internet survey in women with inflammatory breast cancer by a man whose wife had died of inflammatory breast cancer showed that most women said they wished they had known that when there is redness of the breast skin unresponsive to antibiotic therapy, this is indicative of inflammatory breast cancer.

Women 45 - 55 years old are more susceptible to inflammatory breast cancer. Diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer is made by surgical biopsy. Inflammatory Breast Cancer cannot be identified through Mammogram, Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), or Core biopsy.

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