By Cancer Treatment Centers of America®

No lump = no tumor = no cancer, right? Not necessarily. There are breast cancer symptoms that do not involve the presence of a lump.

“The majority of the publicity assigned to breast cancer is a lump, and the majority of patients might feel a mass in the breast, but there are definitely other symptoms besides a lump,” says Ricardo H. Alvarez, MD, MSc, who leads the Breast Cancer Center Institute at Cancer Treatment Centers of America^® (CTCA).

CLICK HERE to familiarize yourself with the five signs of breast cancer that aren’t a lump.

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