One Woman’s Journey with Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Follow one woman from before her Inflammatory Breast Cancer diagnosis in 2009 through chemotherapy, surgery, radiation and post-treatment in 2011. She wishes to remain anonymous. Here is her journey….complete with photos taken along the way. These photos are frank, they were taken before diagnosis, during chemotherapy, just before mastectomy surgery, radiation markings, immediately post radiation, 16 days post radiation, and final healing of chest wall. The Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation wishes to thank her for sharing her story and photos with the IBC community.
Photographic Examples of Inflammatory Breast Cancer and Skin Metastases
To inform mature visitors to this web site, we present photographic examples of inflammatory breast cancer and skin metastases.
These photographs are frank.
The first set of photographs show typical visual clinical symptoms that appear at time of diagnosis, before treatment. Remember there are often non-visual symptoms that include itching, pain, and skin thickening.
The second set of photographs depict what are commonly called skin mets (metastases). The first photos are of early skin mets, the other of a more advanced case of skin mets. Since IBC is in the lymphatic channels of the skin, local/regional recurrence in the skin is not uncommon, even after radiation treatments.
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