The early symptoms of breast cancer was not obvious, palpable breast lumps the size of broad beans, rather hard, mass can be activities, tenderness is not very clear, a small number of patients may have nipple discharge, mostly bloody or water-based, mostly painless, some patients may be associated with nipple Prickle. Subsequently, the mass gradually increased, irregular border, on both sides of the breast asymmetry, the sick one side of the breast high, may nipple retraction, breast, skin, pores may appear larger, showing orange peel-like change. If the axillary palpable supraclavicular swollen, quality hard lymph nodes, has entered the middle and late lesions.
Common symptoms of advanced breast cancer:
Skin changes: the breast skin of satellite nodules, skin flush, edema, ulcer or erosion, but not as there are systemic symptoms such as mastitis.
Nipple discharge: more to bloody or bloody pulp, accompanied by discharge of breast lumps, axillary lymph node swelling and other symptoms, cytological examination can sometimes see the cancer cells or heterotypic cell search.
Breast shape change: the breast skin and shrunken, fixed and contour changes in a “dimple sign”, “orange peel syndrome” and so on.
Nipple changes: nipple unexplained depression, retraction, deformation, or sideways.
Pain: The tingling or Fangshe Tong-based, about 1 / 3 of patients in this early stage, there may be symptoms of this pain-free laws do not change with the menstrual cycle.
Axillary lymph nodes or subclavian lymph nodes: lymph nodes may be integrated into groups or showed a dumbbell-shaped, the pressure of mild pain. Ipsilateral upper extremity lymphedema occurs.