What are the early symptoms of breast cancer?

Breast cancer can cause great damage to women's breasts. Most breast cancer patients need to have their breasts removed. If it is discovered in the early stages, it may help with the treatment effect. Ladies, please pay attention to breast health.

1. Although some early breast cancer patients cannot feel a clear lump in the breast, they often feel local discomfort, especially postmenopausal women, who sometimes feel mild pain and discomfort in one breast, or heaviness, soreness and discomfort in one shoulder and back, and even involve the upper arm on that side;

2. Skin changes: Common changes include superficial venous distention, dimple sign and orange peel-like skin. Inflammatory breast cancer patients may have large areas of darkening, induration, and thickening of the chest skin, with cancerous plaques and ulcers forming an armor-like chest wall. Advanced breast cancer may break superficially, forming ulcers or cauliflower-like neoplasms;

3. Nipple discharge: In the early stages of breast cancer, discharge is not common in most breast cancers and is more common in intraductal carcinoma and papillary carcinoma. Bloody discharge is the most common, followed by serous, serous-bloody, and watery discharges. Breast cancer with discharge as the only symptom is extremely rare, and most of them are early intraductal carcinoma and papillary carcinoma. Most breast cancers with discharge are first found with a lump and then accompanied by discharge.

4. Frequent pain of unknown cause: In the early stage, there is a painless lump. When breast cancer is combined with cystic hyperplasia, there may be distending pain and dull pain. Pain in late stage breast cancer often indicates that the tumor directly invades the nerves. The pain symptoms are more obvious and the patient's suffering is deepened.

5. In the early stage, a bean-sized lump can be felt in the breast. It is hard and movable. Generally, there is no obvious pain, but a few may have intermittent dull pain, or stabbing pain.