Facts: Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women. There is a one in eight chance a woman will get breast cancer during her lifetime. Men also develop breast cancer but this is rare. White women are more apt to get postmenopausal breast cancer while black women are more likely to get premenopausal breast cancer.
     Most women understand that early detection is the front line battle against beating breast cancer. Self-exams and mammograms have saved countless lives. However, there is a little known, but extremely aggressive form of breast cancer of which the general population knows little.
     This is inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), an insidious form of cancer which can't be detected by mammograms as there usually isn't a lump. Although IBC is rare, less than five percent of breast cancers, it can materialize quickly over a short period of time and can be fatal in a short period of time. IBC can't be diagnosed until symptoms appear. Symptoms include a red, swollen breast which may look like the woman has been bitten by an insect. Other symptoms can be skin redness, itching, quick increase in breast size, an orange peel skin texture and an inverted nipple. 
      IBC can be treated with chemotherapy, surgery and radiation. If caught early there is a fifty-fifty chance it can be taken care of. Delay can be fatal. This form of cancer is regularly confused with infection. Although most breast cancers develop in women of middle age or older IBC can strike any age as well as teens. IBC spreads rapidly and a low survival rate.
      Of the other, more familiar forms of breast cancer the "most important findings" has been that hormone replacement therapy for women after menopause increases the threat of breast cancer. Estrogen alone is not the only hormone increasing the risk.
       To help a woman in need of a free mammogram go to this site http://www.thebreastcancersite.com , click on the "free button." One click does not provide a free mammogram. According to Snope.com it takes "45,000 clicks for a free mammogram. The Breast Cancer Site provides for approximately 1.3 mammograms a day. Visitors are also not prohibited from clicking more than once; they just can't do it more than once a day."

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