Symptoms of Breast Cancer

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Early breast cancer symptoms do not always occur. Approximately 30-50% of breast cancers are diagnosed with mammogram. Often these women don’t have any breast cancer symptoms.

Breast cancer symptoms seen in patients with disease that has not spread are often characterized by skin changes such as redness or thickening of the skin. Patients can sometimes feel a mass or a lump. Sometimes people can develop pain. Other breast cancer symptoms include nipple retraction, ulceration of the skin, enlarged lymph nodes under the arm, dimpling of the skin of the breast, or discharge from the nipple.


Men can also develop breast cancer symptoms.

 
To view information about symptoms of breast cancer go to our breast cancer questions and answers page.
To view specific information about topics related to breast cancer symptoms go to our Topics page.
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To view the side effects of medication associated with the treatment of breast cancer go to our Pharmacology page.
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To view the and differential diagnosis of breast cancer symptoms go to our Medicine Methods page.

Symptoms of breast cancer often do not lead directly to the underlying diagnosis and many symptoms can be misleading. Please review all concerns and information found on this website with your health care provider.