What are the symptoms of breast cancer

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Breast cancer is one of the "killers" of women. The earliest manifestation of breast cancer is a single, painless and progressive small lump in the breast. 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 surface of the tumor skin depression; adjacent to the nipple cancer can lead 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, breast cancer lymph node metastasis for ipsilateral axillary lymph node enlargement, initially scattered, painless, hard, the number is small, can be promoted; later, the number of enlarged lymph nodes increased, adhesion to each other into a group, and the skin or deep axillary tissue adhesion and fixed. Contralateral axillary lymph node metastasis may occur in a few patients.

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

matters needing attention

It is better to eat soybeans, carrots, broccoli, Cereals, fresh fruits, etc. 1. The diet should be regular and quantitative, and it is more suitable for patients with digestive tract cancer to eat less and more meals. For example, often eat nutritious dry fruit and seed foods, such as sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, peanuts, walnuts, dried apricots, almonds, raisins, etc