Treatment and Diagnosis of Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Diagnosis of IBC or inflammatory Breast Cancer
Inflammatory breast cancer is diagnosed by Biopsy, breast ultrasound and mammogram.
This cancer is categorized as stage IIIB cancer or IV stage cancer. There is much dissimilarities in physical appearance of breast of a ordinary stage3 breast cancer and inflammatory breast cancer. IBC grows very fast than normal breast cancer.
Treatment for inflammatory breast cancer
IBC or inflammatory breast cancer treated via various methods. Generally, chemotherapy is given first to destroy or control all cancer cells of body. Chemotherapy is a systematic therapy means it affects through out the body. Then it is followed by surgery and radiation therapy. The tumor removed from body by surgery and radiation therapy destroy other cancer cells. Both this therapies are worked locally. During surgery infected breast tissue or breast is removed from body.
Other therapy like hormone therapy, additional chemotherapy and targeted therapy are given to cancer patient to block reappearance of this cancer disease.