Not everybody with breast cancer develops a noticeable lump in their breast.
That’s why knowing the number-one sign of breast cancer—especially the top sign you may notice beyond a lump—is so critical to getting the early treatment you need.
“Early detection is so important with breast cancer because early-stage breast cancer is highly treatable and highly curable,” Tara Olson, M.D., an ob/gyn and physician manager at Simmonds, Martin & Helmbrecht of Advantia in Frederick, MD, previously told Prevention.
How treatable is highly treatable? Per the American Cancer Society, the five-year survival rate for cancer that has not spread outside the breast is over 99%.Continue Your, Reading. .
