The most common sign of breast cancer is a lump in your breast or your underarm.
Satellite skin nodules breast cancer.
And sometimes a rash on the skin of the breast.
Your breast size and shape may change or you may notice discharge from the nipple.
Symptoms of skin metastases.
Inflammatory type of cancer.
How a breast mass feels can give a doctor a fairly good idea whether a lump is a breast cancer tumor or a benign mass.
Nci s dictionary of cancer terms provides easy to understand definitions for words and phrases related to cancer and medicine.
A breast lump that s painless hard irregularly shaped and different from surrounding breast tissue might be breast cancer.
Skin covering the lump may look red dimpled or pitted like the skin of an orange.
The cells that have spread to the skin are breast cancer cells.
It s also different to local recurrence which is when primary breast cancer has come back in the chest or breast area or in the skin near the original site or scar.
In one study palpation feeling the lump had an overall accuracy of around 90.
Presence of any two grave signs given above.
If you are worried about cancer or if you have a history of cancer in your family talk to a doctor about the lump.
It might feel rubbery or like a hard knot ball or nodule.
This is not the same as having cancer that starts in the skin.
Doesn t move around fixed to the tissue.
Not tender when touched.
Extensive skin edema 50 skin involved satellite skin nodules.
Clinically involved scf and internal mammary nodes.
Mammography an x ray of the breast tissue is used to screen the breasts to find early stage breast cancer.
The recommendation for the general population is that yearly mammography screening.
Firm hard to the touch.
S3 06 skin not involved paget disease of the nipple dcis extending to skin contiguous with lactiferous sinuses invasive carcinoma involving dermis or epidermis without ulceration invasive carcinoma involving dermis or epidermis with ulceration ipsilateral satellite skin nodules ie dermal.
It may be soft or hard.
Cancer or other serious lumps will have these signs.