CHEARS

The most common symptom of breast cancer is a new lump or mass. A painless, hard mass that has irregular edges is more likely to be cancer, but breast cancers can be tender, soft, or round. They can even be painful. For this reason, it's important to have any new breast mass, lump, or breast change checked by an experienced health care professional.

Other possible symptoms of breast cancer include:

• Swelling of all or part of a breast (even if no lump is felt)

• Skin dimpling (sometimes looking like an orange peel)

• Breast or nipple pain

• Nipple retraction (turning inward)

• Nipple or breast skin that is red, dry, flaking or thickened

• Nipple discharge (other than breast milk)

• Swollen lymph nodes (Sometimes a breast cancer can spread to lymph nodes under the arm or around the collar bone and cause a lump or swelling there, even before the original tumor in the breast is large enough to be felt.)

Although any of these symptoms can be caused by things other than breast cancer, if you have them, they should be reported to a health care professional so the cause can be found.

In case of any query or you need any counselling please contact on breastcancer@phaf.in or cancer@phaf.in 

Breast Cancer Awareness Month 1st Oct - 31st Oct