Inflammatory breast cancer

Introduction: Inflammatory breast cancer

Inflammatory breast cancer: A rare aggressive form of breast cancer. The cancer tends to develop as a layer rather than as a lump. Metastasis is common. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Inflammatory breast cancer is available below.

Symptoms of Inflammatory breast cancer

• Breast redness
• Swollen breast
• Warm breast
• Absence of a breast lump - many cases have no breast lump
• Breast lump - a breast lump may or may not be present

See full list of 39 symptoms of Inflammatory breast cancer

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Medical Textbooks Online about Inflammatory breast cancer

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Misdiagnosis and Inflammatory breast cancer

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Causes of Inflammatory breast cancer

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Treatments for Inflammatory breast cancer

• Radiation, chemotherapy and surgery

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Definitions of Inflammatory breast cancer:

Inflammatory breast cancer is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Inflammatory breast cancer, or a subtype of Inflammatory breast cancer, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)