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What is cancer?

Cancer is a disease described since antiquity. It was the Greek physician Hippocrates who, comparing the tumors to a crab, first gave them the Greek names "Larkin's" and "carcinoma". The comparison is justified by the appearance of certain tumors, the extensions of which recall the legs of the animal.
For a long time, cancer was an incurable disease. Today, thanks to advances in medicine, many cancers are cured. However, the word still retains a powerful symbolic charge today, associated with particularly dark evocations.
A description of our current knowledge of cancers, biologically and medically, invites us to go beyond this representation.
Biologically, cancer results from the occurrence of dysfunction in certain cells of the body. These begin to multiply in an anarchic manner and proliferate, first locally, then in the surrounding tissue, then at a distance where they form metastases.
In medical terms, the word "cancer" actually refers to a group of diseases that are very different from each other. This is why we should not speak of cancer, but of cancers, in the plural.

 Symptoms of a disease are any abnormal manifestation caused by this disease. The symptoms listed below do not necessarily mean that it is breast cancer. But if so, it is important to detect it as early as possible. It is therefore recommended to seek medical advice as soon as an anomaly is spotted. Do not wait and ignore any unusual sign.

• A lump in one breast
• Hard nodes in the armpit (under the arm)
• Changes in the skin of the breast and nipple
• A change in the size or shape of the breast
• Other symptoms

A LUMP IN A BREAST

A lump or lump in a breast is the most common sign of breast cancer. This mass, generally painless, is most often of hard consistency and has irregular contours. It also appears to be “fixed” in the breast.

HARD GANGLIONS IN THE ARMPIT (UNDER THE ARM)

One or more hard lump(s) in the armpit sometimes means that breast cancer has spread to the axillary lymph nodes. However, the lymph nodes remain painless.

BREAST AND NIPPLE SKIN CHANGES

A change in the skin: retraction, redness, edema, or orange peel appearance;

a change in the nipple or areola (the area surrounding the nipple): retraction, change in color, oozing or discharge;

changes in the shape of your breasts.

A CHANGE IN THE SIZE OR SHAPE OF THE BREAST

Redness, edema, and significant warmth in the breast can be a sign of inflammatory breast cancer.

OTHER SYMPTOMS

If the cancer is not diagnosed when the first symptoms appear, the tumor can grow and spread to other parts of the body, causing other so-called later symptoms, such as:

• bone pain;
• nausea, loss of appetite, weight loss, and jaundice;
• shortness of breath, cough, and fluid buildup around the lungs (pleural effusion);
• headaches, double vision, and muscle weakness.