I often get emails or have comments posted on this breast cancer blog site asking about the symptoms of breast cancer.
Here's a brief summary but please remember - if you have any doubts at all then please go see your doctor for a check as soon as possible.
In most women, breast cancer is first noticed as a painless lump in the breast.
Other symptoms of breast cancer may include:
changes in the size or shape of a breast
dimpling of the skin of the breast
a thickening in the breast tissue
a nipple becoming inverted (turned in)
a lump or thickening behind the nipple
a rash (like eczema) affecting the nipple
a bloodstained discharge from the nipple (this is very rare)
a swelling or lump in the armpit.
Please remember that a pain in the breast is rarely a symptom of breast cancer. In fact, many healthy women find that their breasts feel lumpy and tender before a period.
But some types of benign breast lumps can be painful - so I'm going to say it again and this time in big writing:
IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS ABOUT POSSIBLE BREAST CANCER THEN PLEASE GO SEE A DOCTOR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
Got the message yet :-)
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Early breast cancer usually does not cause pain. Still, a woman should see her health care provider about breast pain or any other symptom that does not go away. Most often, these symptoms are not due to cancer. Other health problems may also cause them. Any woman with these symptoms should tell her doctor so that problems can be diagnosed and treated as early as possible.
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