The cancer of a mammary gland - develops often, approximately at 1 of 10 women.

Risk factors: the menopause in the age of is more senior than 50 years; absence of sorts or the first labors in the age of is more senior than 30 years (a case rate in 3 times more often); the family anamnesis testifying to a cancer of a mammary gland at mother, the sister (in 2 times more often) or both of them (in time more often); fibro-кистозная a mastopathy (in 3-5 times more often). The early diagnosis of a cancer of a mammary gland provides successful treatment of the majority of patients. The five years' survival rate at treatment of the localized form 1 - 2 stages makes 90 %, at the local widespread cancer - 60 %.

Signs. The cancer of a mammary gland is shown by development of the limited mobile, dense tumour with insignificant retraction of a skin above it. In late stages of illness these signs are more expressed, there is a retraction of a papilla, infiltration and a ulceration of a skin, puffiness of a mammary gland in a zone of a locating of a tumour. Except for such most typical development of a cancer of a mammary gland, other clinical variants are observed. The hydropic form is characterized by augmentation of a mammary gland due to sharply expressed edema and infiltration, the skin is condensed.