Often missed breast cancer symptom isn't a lump but is spotted on your skin Breast cancer touches the lives of around 55,000 women and 400 men across the UK annually - but an alarming number remain unaware of the full range of symptoms to watch out for.
Breast Cancer Now has a worrying statistic that in about five per cent of cases, women's breast cancer will have 'already spread and become incurable' by the time it's caught, highlighting just how critical early detection is.
Inflammatory breast cancer often involves cells blocking small lymph vessels in the breast, causing the skin to become 'red and inflamed'.
In some cases, this is a sign of a type of breast cancer known as inflammatory breast cancer.".
The condition known as orange peel skin, or peau d'orange, can also be indicative of other issues such as mastitis - a common breast infection among pregnant or breastfeeding women - or fat necrosis, where fat tissue dies due to injury and loss of blood supply.
