Signs Of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is cancer that affects the breast tissue. Once this tissue is so common in women as in men, both sexes are prone to develop this type of cancer. Although, in males, the incidence is less than 1% of diagnoses. Moreover, in women, is the second leading cause of fatal diseases classified as carcinogenic.

The epithelial tumors (carcinomas) may be of lobular or ductal (most common) and rarely sarcomas (connective tissue originated).

Breast cancer does not cause physical pain (probably in the later stages of the disease), so the importance of doing breast self-examination for early identification. Through self-examination can detect signs of illness such as a change in the shape of the breast, hardening of the breast, appearance of lumps in the breast or under the arm (and in 90% of cases are benign. Already malignant, usually are solitary, in a single breast), retraction of the breast skin or nipple, significant bloating, breast pain, redness and continuous secretion by a duct (spontaneous and bloody).

People with family cases, both the cancer and the other, should have careful attention to prevent the onset of the disease or prevent its expansion. For those cases with no family, but they are in the age of greatest number of cases (between 40 and 60 years), self-examination is essential. Overweight women with more reproductive phase, with high levels of estrogen receptor positive are more likely to develop the disorder.