What are the symptoms of advanced breast cancer

Breast lumps are the main symptom of advanced breast cancer. They usually occur in the upper outer part of the breast. Especially for breast lumps in adult women, they should be taken seriously. If you have breast cancer, you will have obvious lumps in your breast. The lumps will occur in the upper outer part of the breast. They are usually single lumps with irregular shapes, hard texture, and unclear edges. Breast cancer is a malignant tumor of the breast.

Caring for Breast Cancer Patients

In fact, the understanding of breast cancer is still relatively superficial, and many things are not done in place. If the nursing measures are appropriate, it is still very beneficial to the recovery of breast cancer. First of all, some clinical treatment and dietary care should be done, such as enhancing the patient's physical immunity, eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, exercising appropriately, having strong resistance, and using drugs rationally. Breast cancer patients should be careful not to abuse drugs and not take antibiotics for a long time to avoid drug resistance or other bacterial infections. For breast cancer patients, psychological care should be carried out first, because most patients will have some emotional changes after illness and during treatment, such as anxiety, depression, tension, etc., and corresponding psychological counseling should be given in combination with the different psychological changes of patients, encouraging patients to face the disease positively, and conducting standardized diagnosis and treatment. Breast cancer care is divided into preoperative care and postoperative care.

How to prevent lymphedema after breast cancer surgery?

Some severe refractory edema can be treated surgically to improve the patient's appearance and function. Of course, these methods only treat symptoms, not radiotherapy after breast cancer surgery. They will also hinder local cellular edema and lymphatic return, prevent the formation of parallel lymphatic flow, promote the transformation of lymphedema to fibrosis, and aggravate lymphedema. The main purpose of taking good skin protection measures is to prevent infection. Upper limb lymphedema is prone to occur after breast cancer surgery. On the one hand, the axillary lymphatic vessels are cut and ligated, and on the other hand, the axillary veins and lymphatic vessels are damaged.