Inflammatory Breast Cancer Disease: A Literature Review
Physicians, health care practitioners, and breast cancer advocacy groups have spent many decades investing in the promotion of breast cancer screening and early detection mechanisms, such as mammograms and breast self examinations. These screening modalities are extremely important in reducing breast cancer incidence, prevalence, and mortality, as breast cancer screening continues to contribute to decreasing the surging mortality rate of cancerous diseases. Without the use of these screening measures, breast cancer mortality would affect many more women and exceed current statistics. While these screenings are important for the early detection of breast cancer, a more uncommon, virulent, and fatal form of breast cancer known as Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) has gone largely unreported and continues to affect women. Considering IBC is an aggressive form of breast cancer with a five year survival rate of 65% more diligent measures and strategies are needed to educate women throughout the world about IBC. The purpose of this review is to present an overview of the literature introducing IBC, address symptoms to spread awareness, concentrate on early detection, and focus on the comprehensive treatment options of IBC. Received: August 07, 2019 Accepted: October 24, 2019 Published: November 25, 2019 Copyright: (c) 2019 Talbert PY. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Corresponding author: Patricia Y. Talbert, Howard University, USA. E mail: patricia.talbert@howard.edu Citation: Talbert, PY, Frazier MD. Inflammatory Breast Cancer Disease: A Literature Review. Cancer Studies. 201; 2(1):4. Open Access Cancer Studies