The following are articles from various sources relating to inflammatory breast cancer. Please also be sure to read the article featured in MAMM magazine.
Run for Women Spreads Words of Warning, Hope (June 2002)
“Most women are familiar with the rules of early detection: Regular self-exams and mammograms. Discovering a lump in an exam or an abnormality in a mammogram signals further testing.
” ‘But that’s not the whole story,’ warns Johnson, 57, of Anchorage.
“Johnson’s wife, Marilyn, never had a lump and never had a spot show up on a mammogram. Neither did Ginny Mason of Goshen, Ind., who ran on Saturday. What they did have was an invisible and deadly disease — inflammatory breast cancer, considered by many the most aggressive form of breast cancer.”
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Big, Bad, Ugly Cancer
“Last spring, Susan Niebur was a breastfeeding mother who thought she was having another bout with a common breast infection called mastitis. Her second son, born in January, refused to nurse on her right breast, and that side had become swollen, red and sore.
“When a 10-day course of antibiotics had no effect, the Silver Spring, Md., resident did some research online. Her doctor sent her to Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Center, where a skin biopsy revealed the worst.
“What she thought was mastitis turned out to be inflammatory breast cancer, a highly aggressive form of breast cancer that attacks the lymph vessels in the skin and then moves onto the axillary lymph nodes under the armpits before spreading to organs throughout the body.”
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Survivor Wants People to Know About Different Type of Breast Cancer
“There’s nothing funny about cancer.
“Or is there?
“Wilton resident Denise Horner said she, her family and friends found plenty of reasons to laugh after she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in August of 2006. When chemotherapy caused her hair to fall out, Horner’s friends and children greeted her with panty hose over their heads.”
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