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and sent Bryant back to her doctor.
The Most Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer
breast cancer cases and kills about 60 percent of patients within five years.
Victims of Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) are far from having a "cute" experience.
The Past
For Linda Gamble, a retired high school teacher from Pensacola,nike shox r4 preto, Fla., IBC was one of the most terrifying experiences she ever witnessed when her sister, homemaker Mary Ann Garber, was diagnosed with the disease on Oct. 7, 2002.
One morning before Gamble went to work, Garber approached her, worried that the under wire in her new bras might have caused an infection. Her right breast was swollen to the size of a football, with large red open sores.
"[When I saw it] what I felt was terror,nike air max 2013 masculino," Gamble said. "To me, that looked like what cancer would look like."
Immediately,site nike brasil, Gamble took her sister to a local practitioner.
"He stepped back in shock," Gamble said. "Then he called all his nurses in to see it."
Garber was diagnosed as stage IIIB, meaning the cancer had not yet spread to other organs. IBC has a faster doubling time than other types of cancers,air max 90, spreading throughout the breast in sheets or nests, which are undetectable in mammograms,nike air jordan, according to the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The nests clog breast tissue vessels, causing the breast to heat and swell.
Garber was soon given news that she had approximately six more months to live. Immediately starting the rigorous plan of chemotherapy,nike air max 2009 laranja, a mastectomy in January 2003 and radiation therapy, she maintained optimistic, despite the grim outlook.
"She didn't believe it,tenis nike air max 2013 branco," Gamble said. "She kept saying 'I've never been sick a day in my life, so how could this be happening to me?'"
Before her first mastectomy, Garber was treated with Adriamycin Cytoxan, a form of chemotherapy that shrank her tumor by half its original size. Shortly after her surgery,nike shox marrom, the open sores reappeared over Garber's mastectomy scars and spread to her left breast.
When the open sores kept reappearing, Garber was diagnosed as stage IV, meaning the cancer had moved to other organs.
Misdiagnosis is very common when it comes to IBC, according to information from IBCRF. Many victims are misdiagnosed with mastitis, a breast infection, and are prescribed antibiotics.
"It was spreading so fast,nike shox tl4, it was unbelievable,nike air max 2011 masculino," Gamble said. "Time is of the essence with IBC."
Also of the essence is ability to correctly define the cancer, according to IBCRF. Clinical IBC diagnosis is based on abnormal redness of the skin, skin swelling and an orange skin color.
While such characteristics can be helpful in identifying the cancer, scientists are still researching what causes it, including having other types of breast cancer throughout family history,preco de nike air max, according to the NCI. Between the clinical and gene related characteristics, IBC is very broadly defined. and contributor to the IBCRF web site.
Bryant began noticing infrequent itching and discomfort around her left nipple from February to April 13, 2001.
Two weeks later while she was out of town on business, the tissue across her breast became hard, feverish and painfully swollen.
"[The symptoms] seemed to appear overnight," Bryant said on the IBCRF web site. "I saw my doctor and he gave me [an antibiotic] to take for five days.'"
Time lost during misdiagnosis is one reason for the 40 percent survival rate, according to the IBCF. Other causes are a physician's lack of experience treating IBC, and the cancer's poor response to standard chemotherapy.
After feeling a hard 8.8cm mass in her breast, Bryant returned for a mammogram and ultrasound in May. The radiologist still did not know what it was, and sent Bryant back to her doctor.
During a surgical appointment, Bryant was first told she had a 50/50 chance of having breast cancer. The next day,air max azul bebe, Bryant's husband searched the Internet for his wife's symptoms and came across the term "inflammatory breast cancer."相关的主题文章:
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