Breast Cancer Signs

Breast Cancer Signs

Often there are no outward signs of breast cancer that you can see or feel. If there are outward signs, they may be:

Breast Cancer Signs

• Sometimes small, hard lumps in the armpit may be a sign that breast cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. Although these lumps are often painless, they may be tender.

• A change in the shape or size of the breast may signal a problem.

• A new area of thickened tissue in the breast.

• Crusting, ulcers or scaling on the nipple may be a sign of some rare types of breast cancer such as Paget's disease of the breast.

• Some women's nipples are always pointed inward. Normal nipples that suddenly become inverted should be checked by a doctor.

• The skin of the breast may become dimpled or puckered. A thickening and dimpling of the skin is sometimes called orange peel skin.

• Fluid coming from the nipple may be bloody, clear to yellow, green, and look like pus.

• itchiness, inflammation or hot-feeling skin

Men get breast cancer, too.

Male Breast Cancer Symptoms

Symptoms include breast lump and breast pain and tenderness.

Mammography

These are the Breast Cancer Signs. But after finding some of the signs, it is not necessary that you also suffer this disease so, Physical examination of the breast is important to find breast cancer. You need to see your doctor and consult about it.If Doctor suspects something then he will do Mammography(process to examine the human breast and is used as a diagnostic and a screening tool.) to be clear.