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7 pages in length. Classified as "aggressive and difficult to treat" (Mayo Clinic, 2008), inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is different from what most people are familiar with in the form of symptoms and diagnosis. This more rapidly-forming type of breast cancer has moved up in prevalence over the years to the point where it is still categorized as rare but has begun to infiltrate the cancer community with greater pervasiveness than ever before, accounting for as much as six percent of all United States cancer diagnoses. With that increase in prevalence, however, has come a better formulation of treatments that have increased what once was a poor long-term survival rate (Mayo Clinic, 2008). Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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type of breast cancer has moved up in prevalence over the years to the point where it is still categorized as rare but has begun to infiltrate the cancer community
with greater pervasiveness than ever before, accounting for as much as six percent of all United States cancer diagnoses. With that increase in prevalence, however, has come a better
formulation of treatments that have increased what once was a poor long-term survival rate (Mayo Clinic, 2008). II. SYMPTOMS, CAUSE, DIAGNOSIS, CULTURAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, TREATMENT Inflammatory breast
cancer is not only much more aggressive and less responsive to conventional treatment, but is also not diagnosable by the standard screening protocol of mammograms, in as much as the
tumor is not detectable in its different form. Instead, inflammatory breast cancer is identified well into the disease when the patient is acutely symptomatic; by this time, the disease
has progressed to such a point that treatment options do not always present a positive or long-term outcome. However, there is yet another barricade that often prevents immediate symptomatic
recognition as that of inflammatory breast cancer since mastitis (breast infection) mimics the signs; typical protocol for these symptoms call for a one-week dose of antibiotics, after which time --
when the indications do not disappear -- further testing in the form of biopsy, ultrasound and/or MRI is ordered to determine cancer (Mayo Clinic, 2008). Because of the atypical
nature of IBC, the combined outcome of tissue/skin biopsy and MRI provide the most complete indication of the cancers presence. There is no definitive cause of IBC in particular
or cancer in general other than the knowledge of it being an "unregulated cell division, starting with one abnormal cell, in this case usually in one of the breasts ducts"
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