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Breast Cancer Symptoms
Screening for breast cancer by mammography (X-raying the breast)
is offered every three years in the UK to all women between 50 and
64. The highest number of cases of breast cancer occurs in women
between these ages.
Mammography can detect very early breast tumours, when they are
too small to be felt. In fact, most of the breast cancers detected
by screening are at this very early stage, when they are relatively
easy to cure. Studies have shown that women who take part in screening
are more likely to have breast cancer diagnosed early and more likely
to have it cured and, as a result, are less likely to die from it,
than women who do not take part in mammography screening.
Some Symptoms of Breast Cancer could be:
- Breast lump or breast mass noted upon breast exam -- usually
painless, firm to hard and usually with irregular borders
- Lump or mass in the armpit
- A change in the size or shape of the breast
- Abnormal nipple discharge
- Change in the color or feel of the skin of the breast, nipple,
or areola
- Change in appearance or sensation of the nipple
Pulled in (retraction), enlargement, or itching
- Breast pain, enlargement, or discomfort on one side only
- Any breast lump, pain, tenderness, or other change in a man
- Symptoms of advanced disease are bone pain, weight loss, swelling
of one arm, and skin ulceration
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