What is metastatic breast cancer

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Breast cancer has always been a serious disease afflicting female friends. I also suffered from breast cancer. Some time ago, when I was taking a bath, I found a small lump in my breast, which was only the size of soybeans. I didn't care about it at that time, but when I found that the lump was getting bigger and bigger, I went to the hospital and found that it was breast cancer. I simply felt that the sky had collapsed But many friends don't know about breast cancer, what is metastatic breast cancer, how to detect breast cancer. Let me share some experience with you!

What is metastatic breast cancer

First of all, early breast cancer is not easy to find, early breast cancer patients with breast masses, mostly single, hard, irregular edge, less smooth surface. Most breast cancer is painless mass, only a few with varying degrees of pain or tingling. There are nipple skin itching, erosion, ulceration, scab, desquamation, with burning pain, resulting in nipple retraction.

Secondly, breast cancer will appear mass, the earliest performance 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.

Finally, with the development of breast cancer, the symptoms will become more and more obvious, in the early stage of breast cancer generally will not have too obvious symptoms, but with the development of the disease, it will gradually show breast lumps, axillary lymphadenopathy, nipple erosion, galactorrhea, breast tingling, redness and swelling, nipple areola change and other symptoms.

matters needing attention

When suffering from breast cancer, in addition to cooperating with the doctor's treatment, we should also pay attention to improving our immunity and enhancing our resistance to cancer. In addition, selenium supplementation can activate the patient's immune system, help the patient's body control the tumor, and avoid tumor deterioration or metastasis before treatment.