Redness or another change in the skin color of the breast, swelling on one side and/or a rash that appears quickly — sometimes literally overnight — are the hallmark symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer.
But what does that rash actually look like? And how can you distinguish it from other, more benign conditions?
To learn more, we went to Wendy Woodward, M.D., Ph.D., a radiation oncologist and researcher who specializes...
On Oct. 13, 2014, I received the news that I had inflammatory breast cancer. Everything my local doctor said right after that sounded like...
I was 41 when I found out I had breast cancer.
One day, I was carting around two teenagers and a preschooler, running our small...
When I was diagnosed with triple-negative inflammatory breast cancer in October 2020, it was jarring, to say the least. I was only 38 – still too young to have started getting regular screening mammograms. I was also 14 weeks pregnant with my first child.
My mind immediately filled with questions: What about the baby? Can we even still have this child? What’s going to happen?
Triple-negative inflammatory breast cancer...
If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, you may already know you have many options when it comes to where to seek treatment.
But...
I’m the kind of person who follows my gut. So, when I looked up my symptoms online and thought I had inflammatory breast cancer, I kept pushing...
Whether you’re facing a cancer diagnosis, want to better understand your risk or celebrating life after cancer, you likely have questions...
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) accounts for only about 2-4% of new breast cancer diagnoses each year. But because it’s so aggressive, it...
If you’ve just received a breast cancer diagnosis, you probably have a lot of questions: What type of breast cancer do I have? How advanced...
Courage. Hope. Love. Faith. Strength. Wisdom. These are a few of the gifts that our cancer survivors shared with us on Cancerwise this past...