IBC---you must read this

[Joanne S]

Have you ever heard of Inflamatory Breast Cancer?
What is it?
What does it look like?
Knowledge is POWER.
Please check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s9_UrVtc6c


Inflammatory Breast Cancer Visual Clinical Symptoms
http://www.ibcresearch.org/symptoms/ibcvsc.htm

Skin Metastasis (Skin Mets)
http://www.ibcresearch.org/symptoms/ibcskinmets.htm


INFLAMMATORY BREAST CANCER (IBC) is an advanced and accelerated form of breast cancer usually not detected by mammograms or ultrasounds. Inflammatory breast cancer requires immediate aggressive treatment with chemotherapy prior to surgery and is treated differently than more common types of breast cancer.

We have been taught and are reminded frequently by public service announcements and by the medical community that when a woman discovers a lump on her breast she should go to the doctor immediately. Inflammatory breast cancer usually grows in nests or sheets, rather than as a confined, solid tumor and therefore can be diffuse throughout the breast with no palpable mass. The cancer cells clog the lymphatic system just below the skin. Lymph node involvement is assumed. Increased breast density compared to prior mammograms should be considered suspicious.

http://www.ibcresearch.org/