Education Categories:

• General Information About Breast Cancer
• Stages of Breast Cancer
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer
• Recurrent Breast Cancer
• Treatment Option Overview
• Treatment Options by Stage
• Treatment Options for Inflammatory Breast Cancer
• Treatment Options for Recurrent Breast Cancer
• Overview of Prevention
• Breast Cancer Prevention
• What is Screening?
• Mammograms
• What is a Mammogram?

Category: Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Inflammatory Breast Cancer

In inflammatory breast cancer, the breast looks red and swollen and feels warm. The redness and warmth occur because the cancer cells block the lymph vessels in the skin. The skin of the breast may also show the pitted appearance called peau d'orange (like the skin of an orange). Inflammatory breast cancer may be stage IIIB, stage IIIC, or stage IV.

Acknowledgement given to the National Cancer Institute as originator of the information provided herein, with the NCI web site www.cancer.gov as the source.