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Another look at inflammatory breast cancer. Usually a fatal breast cancer disease that has less than 25-50% of survivors not succumbing to death within 5 years. Even with aggressive treatment and monitoring, figures are not improving.

Fortunately, IBC ( inflammatory breast cancers ) it only represents 1% of all breast cancers detected.

The first signs of IBC can includes

• sudden abnormal lump
• redness and soreness
• swelling breast
• hardness or pain in breasts
• skin discoluraton and dimple effect

Here’s  Kelley Tuthill  from NewsCenter 5’s report on on the deadly IBC

Another feature about the fatal inflammatory breast cancer. It is my hope that by posting it here, more women will be aware of it and share this with their women friends.

Often misdiagnose as an ordinary breast infection or inflammation, the deadly IBC could take your life and devastate that of all your love ones. And it often progress so rapidly that before you know it, it may be too late. Will only 6% of all breast cancers identified as inflammatory breast cancer, it is no wonder that no many women have heard of it.

Most often than not, the very first signs of inflammatory breast cancer starts with a red swollen breast, the skin around the breast can be dimple and rough like an orange peel and nipples may be retracted or flatten.

Here’s another post about inflammatory breast cancer you may like to look at

Silent breast cancer

Dr Judy Destouet, the chief of breast mammography for Advance radiology, discuss the pros and cons of using MRI to detect breast cancer with the news team from OncologyPodcasting.com.

The American Cancer Society recently release recommendations for the use of MRI for women at high risk to breast cancer. Patients who have the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene carriers are at high risk of developing pre-menopausal breast cancer. These women have a 25% lifetime risk of contracting breast cancer and is recommended to go for an annual MRI scan.

However, according to Dr Destouet, MRI is a sensitive but not necessarily accurate diagnosis of breast cancer. She advise that for the general detection of breast cancer, women should go thru the process of doing a mammogram first, after which if need be, an ultra sound and as a last resort the MRI.

And their radiologist should look at all these data and discuss the best option to proceed after all the test have been done.

Have you heard of the silent breast cancer. Silent because even the mammogram cannot detect and where no lumps can be felt on your breast. How then, will you know you have it?

Watch this news story from KOMO in Seattle to understand what I’m talking about

Can you imagine? 3 out of 4 cancer help centers personnel do not know what IBC stands for or what Inflammatory Breast Cancer means. How then will the common woman on the streets know what it is.

Well, I’m glad I shared this and hope all my readers will be informed and spread the word around to all your friends.

Just to recap, some of the symptoms of Inflammatory Breast Cancer are

* Rapid increase in breast size
* Redness
* Skin hot to the touch
* Persistent itching
* Thickening of the breast tissue

And the IBC hotline to call when in doubt is

Local 206-404-3500

Toll free 1-866-447-3467

Jade