What is the first symptom of breast cancer?

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Breast cancer seems to be far away from everyone. In fact, it is always around us. If we don't cherish ourselves, we will be haunted by disease. Therefore, no matter how busy our life is, we should cherish ourselves. Early treatment of breast cancer has hope of cure. Therefore, we must understand the early symptoms of breast cancer, so as to find and treat it early.

What is the first symptom of breast cancer?

Mass is the first symptom of breast cancer. According to foreign reports, most of the masses were located in the outer upper quadrant, followed by the inner upper quadrant and the nipple areola area, and less in the lower quadrant. The size of the mass is different, 2-3cm is more common, mostly single, occasionally multiple. Most of the masses were round or oval, with unclear boundary, generally induration and poor mobility.

Pain most breast cancer patients lack pain symptoms. Because of less pain, breast cancer is not easy to be detected early. Pain is often manifested as breast tingling, distending pain or dull pain, such as peri cancerous cystic hyperplasia of breast can also appear periodic pain.

The breast tissue is surrounded by the subcutaneous superficial fascia, which is connected by the Cooper ligament. Because the superficial fascia is connected with the skin, when the breast cancer invades the Cooper ligament between the breast and shortens it, it will stretch the skin and make the local skin concave, like dimples, which is called "dimple sign". In addition, direct adhesion of the tumor to the skin may also cause this situation. Dimple sign can appear early in breast cancer, especially when the affected arm moves up and down. (1) redness and swelling: for tumors with fast growth and large volume, the superficial skin vein may be inflamed, and the local skin temperature of the tumor may be increased. If the tumor approaches the surface of the skin, the skin may turn red. If cancer cells block the subcutaneous lymphatic vessels, skin edema and "orange peel like change" can appear.

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The above is a summary of the early symptoms of breast cancer, although everyone's early symptoms are different, but the body will send some signals to us, so we should pay attention to self-examination in life, when we receive these signals, we must go to the hospital for examination, early diagnosis and treatment.