"New" Type of Breast Cancer Out There

Don't worry - this is not a somber announcement. As a "member" of the FlyLady crowd, I receive emails from the awesome Flylady.net. Once a month, an email goes out to remind women to perform a monthly breast exam to detect breast cancer in the form of lumps.

This month, FlyLady included a link to a shocking story about a different kind of breast cancer that is more aggressive and under the radar - unknown even to many doctors and cancer centers.

It's called Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), and lumps are NOT part of the symptoms. This cancer is so unknown that by the time women are diagnosed with it, they are in Stage 4 - and there is no Stage 5.

Read more about what symptoms to look for, and, unfortunately, how little is known about this less-heard-of but no less important type of breast cancer.

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