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Article: Rare, but Deadly Inflammatory Breast Cancer Can Escape Detection.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- April 27, 2004
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By Mary Jo Layton, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 27--Melissa Bruchman and her sisters are well-versed in breast cancer detection: monthly self-exams, regular visits to the gynecologist, and annual mammograms to spot tumors.
Yet none of the precautions helped Bruchman, who nearly died from a rare and extremely aggressive type of breast cancer known as inflammatory breast cancer (IBC).
The disease, one of the deadliest types of cancer, often develops without forming a tumor, making it nearly impossible to detect in routine diagnostic tests.
The symptoms are a red rash on the breast that can ...