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usually a pea sized lump in the breast tissue.
Symptoms and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
Symptoms
Early breast cancer usually does not cause pain. In fact, when breast cancer first develops, there may be no symptoms at all. But as the cancer grows, it can cause changes that women should watch for:
A lump or thickening in or near the breast or in the underarm area.
A change in the size or shape of the breast.
A discharge from the nipple.
A change in the color or feel of the skin of the breast, areola, or nipple (dimpled, puckered, or scaly).
A woman should see her doctor if she notices any of these changes. Most often, they are not cancer, but only a doctor can tell for sure.
Diagnosis
An abnormal area on a mammogram, a lump, or other changes in the breast can be caused by cancer or by other, less serious problems. To find out the cause of any of these signs or symptoms, a woman’s doctor does a careful physical exam and asks about her personal and family medical history
a small abnormal mass in breast found on self exam or mammography.
There may be breast cancer that you don’t even notice the lump (especially if you are prone to lots of benign lumps, it is impossible to tell a benign cystic lump from a cancerous lump without a mammogram and other tests) …get routine mammograms regularly as recommended by your physician..
Here is a cdc link
Low Cost or Free Mamograms in your area
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/cancercontacts/...
Check with lots of people and doctors, but just in case Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer researcher came out with a paper saying that the best cancer and infection fighter as yet found was Interferon, but, at the time, it cost $15,000 a gram. The good part was that Interferon was a product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your system. Shortly after that paper came out the FDA tried to make Vit C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA says that the RDA for Vit C is 64 mg a day, just enough to prevent scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vit C and a second Nobel Prize for organic chemistry, said 1000 mg a day as a minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick. On a personal note, I was sick twice a year, for 2 weeks at a time, for 20 years, and was flat on my back for at least a week each time. To this day the doctors have no idea what the problem was. After I gave up on the doctors I tried Vit C. I took enough to keep from being sick and just below too much to get diarrhea. It followed a bell curve over 2 weeks with a peak at 40,000 mg a day – about 300,000 over the 2 weeks. I was not sick for those 2 weeks and after a couple of years of that I have not been sick since. I did not dissolve my kidneys, as some doctors said would happen. I did not get any calcium build up or stones and did not dissolve my cones or solidify my joints. Try it, but drink a lot of water – Vit C is a natural diuretic.
Unfortunately, the first symptom of breast cancer could be too late, so get yearly mammograms.
I have seen women come in with lumps, size of a pea or peanut, leaking especially blood that leaks out on its own, a dimple in the skin, a nipple that seems to retract and was normal a month ago.