Inflammatory breast cancer, a rare yet deadly form of the disease, often doesn't cause a breast lump, and it might not show up on a mammogram, doctors say.
It also tends to grow and spread more quickly compared to other types of cancer, often in a matter of days or weeks.
Inflammatory breast cancer only represents 1% to 5% of all breast cancers in the United States. And because it’s so rare, patients with symptoms like tenderness, redness, warmth, and itching are often misdiagnosed as having a breast infection or inflammation, such as"The main difference is, number one, inflammatory breast cancer will not improve with antibiotics," said Dr.
It found that four in five women recognize a lump in the breast as a sign of breast cancer. However, less than half of women would flag redness of the breast , pitting/thickening of the skin , or one breast feeling warmer or heavier than the other as possible symptoms of breast cancer — and specifically, inflammatory breast cancer.
Park noted that even in the medical community, physicians and providers are not accustomed to thinking about a red breast as a sign associated with inflammatory breast cancer because it is such a rare disease. There are no known specific genetic predisposition genes that predict inflammatory breast cancer. However, there arethat may also increase the risk of this form of the disease, including the inherited mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene.
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