The First Five Early Warning Signs of Breast Cancer

With use of mammography screening, most of the times it’s easy to detect breast cancer at an early stage. If you do your breast cancer exams regularly and get your mammograms done every year, it means you are quite under control. Looking for lumps in your breasts is not as easy as it sounds. Research shows that these lumps are not easily visible or can’t be felt by bare hands until they’re at least 10 to 15 millimeters in size (the size of a dime). Until and unless a lump is not 20mm in size you’re certain not to feel it. Meanwhile, mammograms also miss approximately one in ten tumors, and they’re less reliable in younger women and women with dense breast tissue.
So what makes it easier to detect breast cancer at an early stage? Launched this year, was Brexa Mobile App from Vesna Health Solutions, which helps to detect breast cancer quite at an early stage with a simple click of your finger. This unique method allows you not only to look for unusual lumps or growths, but look for other breast cancer symptoms in women. This can include identifying whether or not angiogenesis is taking place within the breast tissue, which is a much stronger and more accurate indicator that breast cancer may be present.
Following are the first 5 warning signs of a breast cancer.
1. Pain in Your Breast or Chest
As per breast cancer survivors, they feel a sharp pain that comes and goes, few others describe it as an electric sensation that starts off from breast and gradually moves to the nipple.
2. You might have an Itchy Breast
This symptom is mostly associated with inflammatory breast cancer. Many women with inflammatory breasts cancer spend months visiting the dermatologist considering it to be a medication related to some skin disease. Usually when it comes to inflammatory breast cancer you might feel extremely itchy, which makes you feel like scratching. Under this your breast might feel a bit irritated, or the skin may be scaly or dimpled like cellulite.
3. Upper Back, Shoulder and Neck Pain
With some women, breast cancer is felt in the back or shoulders rather than in the chests or breasts. For this specific reason, specialists look for the presence of tumor when treating chronic back pain that’s unrevealed by physical therapy. This pain usually occurs in the upper back or between the shoulder blades, is easily confused with sore muscles, a pulled tendon or ligament. Bone pain feels like a deep ache or throbbing.
4. Change in Breast Shape, Size or Appearance
As to the popular belief, any noticeable lumps are not exactly considered to be breast tumors or cancer. Instead of a lump, you might notice that one of your breasts was more oval to the other, hanging down to the lower and sort of sticking out to one side. You might become of this change, if you take a closer look of yourself to the mirror.
5. Red and Swollen Breasts
If you find your breasts to be hot or swollen, or it looks as if reddened, then you might suspect of an infection such as mastitis. During such occurrence, you might feel your breasts to be swollen and sore, or the skin and the underlying tissue may feel hot or look red and sometimes even purple.
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