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.