What are the symptoms of breast cancer

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Breast cancer symptoms: the earliest manifestation of breast cancer is a single, painless and progressive growth of small masses. The most common tumors were located in the outer upper quadrant, followed by the nipple, areola and inner upper quadrant. Because there are no conscious symptoms, the mass is often found by the patient unintentionally (such as bathing and changing clothes). A few patients may have varying degrees of tenderness or irritation and nipple discharge. The growth speed of the mass is faster, and the invasion of surrounding tissue can cause the change of breast shape, and a series of signs appear. Such as: the tumor surface skin depression; The cancer adjacent to the nipple can lead the nipple to the direction of cancer; Inverted nipple, etc. If the tumor is large, the whole breast tissue will contract and the mass will protrude obviously. The cancer continued to grow, forming the so-called "orange peel like" changes. These are important signs of breast cancer.

What are the symptoms of breast cancer

First: Patients with breast cancer may have symptoms, like breast cancer to advanced stage, the surface of the skin is invaded, can appear skin induration, even skin ulceration formation. The tumor may invade into the thoracic fascia and muscle, which makes the tumor fixed on the chest wall and difficult to push.

Second, breast cancer may have some symptoms. Lymph node metastasis of breast cancer is mainly manifested as ipsilateral axillary lymph node enlargement, which is initially scattered, painless, hard in quality, with a small number and can be promoted; Later, the number of enlarged lymph nodes increased, they adhered to each other and fixed with the skin or deep axillary tissue. Contralateral axillary lymph node metastasis may occur in a few patients.

Third: breast cancer patients may have some symptoms, distant metastasis of breast cancer, to the lung, chest pain, shortness of breath, pleural effusion, etc; Patients with vertebral metastasis may also have severe pain or even paraplegia; When liver metastases, jaundice and hepatomegaly may occur.

matters needing attention

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