Inflammatory Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Inflammatory breast cancer is suspected when you have a very red breast, the breast will become big, and this will happen within one to two month. Sometime it could be faster. You do not have to feel a mass. Therefore, it is commonly misdiagnosed as mastitis (infection of the breast). The only way to make the diagnosis of the IBC is to have a biopsy and look under the microscope. Combination of the biopsy and clinical presentation confirms the diagnosis of IBC. Inflammatory breast cancer is suspected when you have a very red breast, the breast will become big, and this will happen within one to two month. Sometime it could be faster. You do not have to feel a mass. Therefore, it is commonly misdiagnosed as mastitis (infection of the breast). The only way to make the diagnosis of the IBC is to have a biopsy and look under the microscope. Combination of the biopsy and clinical presentation confirms the diagnosis of IBC.