Breast cancer symptoms

In cancer of the breast the following may be described as the most prominent symptoms.
It is most frequently met with at or near the change of life ( menopause) from forty to fifty five years of age. It first makes its appearance as a small lump in the glands of the breast, soft or hard ,at first there may be no pain, and for this reason ( and because family dr tells the patient it is nothing to let it alone) it is often neglected. Then is the time to have it treated for at that stage it can be easily cured without breaking the skin , making a site or causing a movement's pain. As it grows larger it feels more unequal, and as the swelling increased in size of the pain will also increase. As it still grows larger it gets more unequal and more immoveable. The skin appears very white , the nipples drawn in , the part of the adjacent skin is puckered , while round about appear protuberances hard and unequal. The swelling retains its hardeness until the skin over it breaks and it opens out into a cancerous growth . From the open sore we have bloody, watery discharge, the edges of the ulcer thicken and irritate , and the smell from the site is very offensive, when there is a swelling in the breast with bloody watery discharge from the nipple cancer is always present.
In the last stages of cancer of the breast, the glands under the arm of the affected side are enlarged and the arm swollen quite hard down to the end of the fingers on the affected side . If the bone is considerably affected there will be a bloody, watery, bad smelling discharge and shortness of breath. In making our prognosis in a case of cancer of the breast we do not take into consideration the size of the growth but how it is attached. If we grip the cancer with both hands on each side of it and find that it is fixed and immovable and there is shortness of the breath and a bloody watery discharge we know that the bones of the sternum or ribs are so much involved that the case is past cure.
In examination a tumor in the breast never pinch it or squeeze it . Such manipulation irritates the cancer and makes it take on new life and grow so much the faster. Be gentle in all your examinations of the breast. Take the growth between your thumb and finger or graps it gently just as you would if youwere going to pick up a ball from the floor. How does it feel to you ? What is the impression that you get from the feelings of it ? Does it have a nodulated felling ? Can you detect any hard lump feel hard like cheese ? The pain of canis like a needle thrust in the flesh . Remember that it is possible to have a cancer and have no pain at all . The more advanced the disease the more constant the pain . If the nipple is drawn in or there is a bloody, watery discharge from the nipple then you know it is cancer and nothing else . Fleshy tumors and enlargement of the glsnd have a doughy feeling that cannot be mistaken. There is no excuse for calling these cancer.A dr must learn much of this by experience. To have a sensitive touch you should have your eyes at your fingers ends and know how a cancerous tumor feels in a breast. A dr who tells you he can not diagnose a cancer in the breast without cutting out a piece of it and putting it under microscope is ignorant of the first principles of the diagnosis of cancer. Such men should step a side and let a dr take the case who can diagnose cancer .Men sometimes have a cancer of the breast. In my practice I have seen a hundred cases of this kind.