Mohammad Karimi Rokn Abadi - Islamic Azad University of Abadeh, Fars, Iran

The American Cancer Society has announced that approximately 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer annually .Among which %1-%7 are diagnosed with the most invasive breast cancer type; the Inflammatory Breast Cancer. In Iran, breast cancer is the commonest cancer among women comprising 21.4% of all cancers among females. Environmental factors and genetic susceptibility play an important role in causing breast cancer. The environmental factors include: aging, and socioeconomic status and the genetic factors include: race, mutation and repetition. Some inflammatory breast cancers are the invasive ductile type. The diagnosis of this particular breast cancer is specifically determined clinically. Sonography, MRI, PET/CT and Mammography are common ways to diagnose this type of breast cancer. They provide us with specific information in regards to inflammatory breast cancer. Generally inflammatory breast cancer is fatal but recent improvement in therapeutic approach like Pre- Surgical Chemotherapy has significantly increased the survival rate.

Breast Cancer, Mastectomy