KOMO News Special Report: Inflammatory Breast Cancer
May 7, 2006 by Michelle Esteban
SEATTLE – Breast cancer is something women think they know all about: Look for lumps; have mammograms; see our doctors.
But none of that will save you from one silent breast cancer killer that women know virtually nothing about.
It’s called “inflammatory breast cancer,” and it’s something every woman must know about.
“How can I have something when I go to the doctor every year, I do self breast exams every month and what is this? Why am I surprised?”
Kristine was just 37 when she was diagnosed with IBC, three years away from the recommended age to start mammograms.
Testimonial: Obamacare Would’ve Missed My Wife’s Breast Cancer
November 23, 2009 by Rush Limbaugh
CALLER: Okay, so the reason I called is these people — if we had a rationed health care system, this type of breast cancer — will not have any chance of survival because it’s all about speed of starting the treatment for any chance of beating it. And if the government were in charge, these people, none of them would be around because it’s too aggressive. You can’t wait months to be seen. It’s too expensive, and one of the shots costs a lot. My wife, she had to have it four times and it was over $7,000 a shot, and it’s a very low mortality rate. It’s the most rare form of breast cancer, but it’s the most aggressive and it presents over 25% of breast cancer deaths. And the scary thing is, mammograms don’t pick it up typically and it doesn’t present as a lump and it also hits younger women. And so, you know, it’s misdiagnosed. It’s stage three automatically, but most are stage four, and it’s very expensive to treat. So doctors think it’s an infection, and so most people don’t know what this is, and unfortunately if we had a government health care system in place… And my wife, who does not follow politics as much as I do, really knew what was going on about this and said, “You know, if we had that health care system in place I wouldn’t be here.”
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