Related articles: Breast cancer
Definition
Breast cancer is a malignant breast tumor; rare in the male, it is very common in women, so much so that it represents the most frequent cause of cancer in women (it is estimated that about one in 10 women is affected in the course of life). The fact that this tumor form is particularly feared, together with the recent conquests of modern medicine, has meant that the mortality rate has decreased considerably compared to the past.
Most common symptoms and signs *
- Increase in the ESR
- Breast pain
- Pleural empyema
- Tingling in the right arm
- Tingling in the Left Arm
- Tingling in the right hand
- Tingling in the hands
- Galactorrhea
- Breast swelling
- Swelling, heat to the touch and redness of the breast
- hypercalcemia
- Livedo Reticularis
- Breast lumps
- Multiple pulmonary nodules
- Nodule
- Solitary pulmonary nodule
- Orange peel udder skin
- Presence of a breast nodule
- itch
- Return of the nipple
- Serous or blood secretions from the nipple
- thrombocytosis
- Pericardial effusion
- Pleural effusion
Further indications
The most common symptom of breast cancer is the presence of a mammary nodule of hard, fibrous, almost wooden consistency. which makes it easily recognizable on palpation (although not all nodules are malignant, it is important to promptly report them to your doctor). Losses from a single nipple, its inversion (re-entry) or the peeling of the surrounding skin - together with alterations of the skin above the breast (orange peel skin) and changes in the shape of the breast - are other possible symptoms of breast cancer.
