What You Need to Know About Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare and aggressive type of breast cancer; only about 1% to 5% of all breast cancers diagnosed in the United States are inflammatory. This type of breast cancer tends to be diagnosed in younger women and has very different symptoms than other types of breast cancer; it can be mistaken for an infection. Dr. Filipa Lynce, director of the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Center at Dana-Farber, explains what you need to know about inflammatory breast cancer. Listen to the episode to hear Dr. Lynce explain: the signs and symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer how inflammatory breast cancer is diagnosed how inflammatory breast cancer is treated