What are the early symptoms of breast cancer?

1. Breast skin changes

1. Dimple sign: The appearance of dimples in the breast is a sign of involvement of the suspensory ligament of the breast. Because tumors in the deep and shallow parts of the breast invade the suspensory ligament, it will cause it to lose elasticity and contracture, thereby pulling the skin to cause local depressions and dimples. If the tumor directly invades the skin, it will also cause skin depression. Not all dimple signs are breast cancer. Chronic breast inflammation, fat necrosis, breast subcutaneous thrombophlebitis and postoperative scar contracture can also cause skin depressions.

2. Orange peel sign: Breast cancer subcutaneous lymphatic vessels are invaded, and lymphatic return is blocked, which can cause skin edema. However, the skin at the hair follicles will not be edematous, which can easily cause the breast surface to be sunken, just like orange peel. . At the same time, the possibility of inflammatory breast cancer cannot be ruled out. Inflammatory breast cancer is often more widespread and even involves the entire breast.

3. Local bulge: When the breast lump develops to a certain extent, it will bulge on the skin surface, with or without skin surface pigmentation.

2. Changes in the areola

Tumors appear under the nipple, which can pull the nipple and cause nipple deflection and nipple depression; invading the nipple can cause nipple ulcers and erosion. The symptoms of breast eczema-like cancer are nipple scabbing, desquamation, erosion, and repeated non-healing.

3. Nipple discharge

Nipple discharge can occur in breast ducts, especially in large breast ducts, such as epithelial hyperplasia, inflammation, bleeding, necrosis and tumors. Discharge can be colorless, milky white, light yellow, brown, bloody, etc., and can be watery, bloody, serous or purulent. Breast cancer is more common in bloody discharge, which is often discovered by patients themselves when contaminating underwear.