Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare, fast-growing type of breast cancer. The cancer cells block the lymph fluid in the breast tissue and usually don’t form lumps.
Symptoms include:
- Redness, tenderness, and warmth.
- Thickening of the skin of the breast (orange peel appearance).
- Rapid breast enlargement.
- Ridging of the skin of the breast.
Treatment involves chemotherapy, breast surgery, and radiation therapy. Afterwards, more chemotherapy or hormone therapy (or both) may be needed.
Current as of: December 19, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine & Sarah A. Marshall, MD – Family Medicine & Kathleen Romito, MD – Family Medicine & Kirtly Jones, MD – Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology