Breast cancer symptoms?

Question

is there age limit or age when a breast cancer occur?am 18.thanx.am just curios and at the same time nervous.

Answer 1

check your b*****s for lumps

umm...for more info(i dont know that much about breast cancer) go to webmd.com

it has all you need to know just type it in

Answer 2

Breast cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in American women, is the disease women fear most.

Knowing the signs and symptoms of breast cancer may help save your life. When the disease is discovered early, you have more treatment options and a better chance for a cure.

Most breast lumps aren't cancerous. Yet the most common sign of breast cancer for both men and women is a lump or thickening in the breast. Often, the lump is painless. Other potential signs of breast cancer include:

    * A spontaneous clear or bloody discharge from your nipple, often associated with a breast lump

    * Retraction or indentation of your nipple

    * A change in the size or contours of your breast

    * Any flattening or indentation of the skin over your breast

    * Redness or pitting of the skin over your breast, like the skin of an orange

A number of conditions other than breast cancer can cause your b*****s to change in size or feel. Breast tissue changes naturally during pregnancy and your menstrual cycle. Other possible causes of noncancerous (benign) breast changes include fibrocystic changes, cysts, fibroadenomas, infection or injury.

If you find a lump or other change in your breast — even if a recent mammogram was normal — see your doctor for evaluation. If you haven't yet gone through menopause, you may want to wait through one menstrual cycle before seeing your doctor. If the change hasn't gone away after a month, have it evaluated promptly.

AND at your age it is too early to get the disease unless you have some serious family history of the disease. Your chances of developing breast cancer increase with age. Close to 80 percent of breast cancers occur in women older than age 50. In your 30s, you have a one in 233 chance of developing breast cancer. By age 85, your chance is one in eight.-

SO YOU NEED NOT BE CURIOUS AND NERVOUS. But it is always good to have periodical check ups by your doctor, apart from doing self exam to find out the position.

For breast self examination directions please see my blog at -http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-wHph4Fg7e...

Answer 3

Breast cancer is mainly a disease of ageing; 80% of those diagnosed with it are over 50, it's rare in women under 40 and almost unheard of in under 25s.

The American Cancer Society recommends that women start breast self-examination at the age of 20.

Why are you nervous? Do you think you have symptoms. If so, see your doctor, but bear in mind how very, very unlikely it is that you have breast cancer.

Early breast cancer usually has no symptoms at all; the following are the signs and symptoms of possible breast cancer:

change in size - one breast may have become noticeably larger or lower

nipple change - if it becomes inverted (pulled in) or changes its position or shape

rash - on or around the nipple

discharge - from one or both nipples

puckering or dimpling - around nipple

swelling – in your armpit or around your collarbone (from lymph nodes)

lump or thickening - that feels different from the rest of the breast tissue - but remember that most breast lumps are not cancerous. (And most cancerous breast lumps aren't painful; they can be but they are likely to be at an advanced stage if they do.)