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Timely appeal to mammologist-oncologist
Timely appeal to mammologist-oncologist. Pay attention to your health
Mammology - Breast surgery
If you find any redness on your breast, a local increase in temperature, change in skin in the form of seals, or she got kind of orange peel, be sure to consult your doctor.
It is possible that an inflammation of the breast - mastitis, especially if you have marked fever and irritability, and weakness. If this condition - mastitis, its treatment is antibiotics and rest.
Sometimes deep in the breast may accumulate pus - a breast abscess. It also happens that the pus breaks out on their own. In any case of suspected breast abscess, and even more so in the allocation of pus required surgical intervention and should always consult a doctor.
Redness and swelling of the mammary gland and in several other states. One of them - is radiation therapy. Redness and swelling, and irritation of the skin of the breast appears in the middle of a course of radiotherapy and may last for several weeks. In this case there is no fever. In addition, the reddening occurs in diseases such as psoriasis, eczema and herpes.
In case after a course of antibiotics and if the patient does not have any diseases of the skin, redness and swelling did not pass, there should be a biopsy of the breast in order to check whether this is not a sign of redness, inflammation of breast cancer. A biopsy is that the thickness of the breast and the needle is inserted with a syringe a small amount of tissue is taken.
There are other types of breast biopsy. Sometimes a biopsy may give a negative result. Despite the presence of symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer. In this case, you want to re-biopsy.
Most inflammatory breast cancer is diagnosed by physical examination - that is, examination of the breast, and her feelings. However, for a reliable confirmation of the diagnosis of a malignant tumor is still required biopsy. The diagnosis may be difficult, since the absence of palpable tumor in the thickness of the breast and negative results of her biopsy, the doctor may lead to some confusion.
It is therefore very important to consult a specialist oncologist-mammologist who treats breast cancer. Inflammatory breast cancer - a very serious disease. At the same time, it is quite rare - approximately 2.5 per 100 thousand women.
At the beginning of the treatment of inflammatory breast cancer chemotherapy is used. If you found that the tumor Erts-positive, it is possible the use of hormone replacement therapy. It is used either during chemotherapy or after it. Once under the influence of this therapy decreased the tumor, surgical treatment or radiotherapy.
