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BBButterfly's post mastectomy lingerie and accessories have impressed the fabulously fashionable crew at SKIN Magazine...who have featured BBButterfly as 'Shop of the Month' in their LightBox Section!!!

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BBButterfly has been involved with Xcess Media in support of the Pink Ribbon Foundation, and InThePink magazine who's proceeds go towards the charity.

 We can be seen in InThePINK Magazine, OUT NOW and launched on 3rd October 2007. Spot us on page 6 and page 52!!

 BBButterfly's gorgeous post mastectomy bra and briefs have been featured in Woman's Own Magazine!! issue date 15th October 2007 - OUT NOW!!

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BBButterfly's fabulous products have been written about in EasyLiving Magazine!!! (29th September 2007)

 http://www.easylivingmagazine.co.uk/TryThisBuyThis/Details.aspx?StoryID=47454&SiteID=347 

USA Stats

• Every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer.
• Breast cancer is the leading cancer among white and African American women.
• A woman's risk for developing breast cancer increases if her mother, sister, daughter, or two or more other close relatives, such as cousins, have a history of breast cancer, especially at a young age.
• However, 85% of women who develop breast cancer have NO known family history of the disease.

( Info courtesy of BreastCancer.org)


UK Stats

• Each year more than 44,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer, that’s more than 100 women a day
• Each year around 300 men are diagnosed with breast cancer.
• Each year in the UK more than 12,000 women and around 100 men die from breast cancer.
• Breast cancer rates have increased by more than 50% over the last twenty years.

Worldwide Stats

• Worldwide, more than a million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year.
• The highest rates of breast cancer occur in Northern Europe and North America and the lowest rates are in parts of Africa and Asia .
  
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  GOOD NEWS:
  
  *** More women are surviving breast cancer than ever before ***
  ***Early detection increases chances chances of survival***
  *** Breast cancer survival rates have been improving for more than twenty years ***

One of the lesser known types of Breast Cancer. Please be well informed and ask your doctor for more information. 

What is Inflammatory Breast Cancer? 

INFLAMMATORY BREAST CANCER (IBC) is an advanced and accelerated form of breast cancer usually not detected by mammograms or ultrasounds. Inflammatory breast cancer requires immediate aggressive treatment with chemotherapy prior to surgery and is treated differently than more common types of breast cancer.

There is more than one kind of breast cancer.

We have been taught and are reminded frequently by public service announcements and by the medical community that when a woman discovers a lump on her breast she should go to the doctor immediately. Inflammatory breast cancer usually grows in nests or sheets, rather than as a confined, solid tumor and therefore can be diffuse throughout the breast with no palpable mass. The cancer cells clog the lymphatic system just below the skin. Lymph node involvement is assumed.  Increased breast density compared to prior mammograms should be considered suspicious.

You Don't Have to Have a Lump to Have Breast Cancer.

Some women who have inflammatory breast cancer may remain undiagnosed for long periods, even while seeing their doctor to learn the cause of her symptoms.  The symptoms are similar to mastitis, a breast infection and some doctors, not recognizing IBC, will prescribe antibiotics. If a response to antibiotics is not apparent after a week, a biopsy should be performed or a referral to a breast specialist is warranted.

Age 52: Median age at time of diagnosis of IBC ... versus,
Age 62: Median age at time of diagnosis of Breast Cancer.

A surprising portion of young women with IBC had their first symptoms during pregnancy or lactation.  The misconception that these young women are at lower risk for breast cancer and the fact that IBC is the most aggressive form of breast cancer may result in metastases when the diagnosis is made.

One or more of the following are Typical Symptoms of IBC:

• Swelling, usually sudden, sometimes a cup size in a few days

• Itching

• Pink, red, or dark colored area (called erythema) sometimes with texture similar to the skin of an orange (called peau d'orange)

• Ridges and thickened areas of the skin

• What appears to be a bruise that does not go away

• Nipple retraction

• Nipple discharge, may or may not be bloody

• Breast is warm to the touch

• Breast pain (from a constant ache to stabbing pains)

• Change in color and texture of the areola

These Symptoms May Be Present in Benign Breast Disorders. See your doctor if you have any of these symptoms.

Inflammatory Breast Cancer is typically abbreviated as IBC.  Non-inflammatory breast cancer may include in its diagnosis the terms "in situ breast cancer," "infiltrating breast cancer," or "invasive breast cancer" all of which may be abbreviated with "ibc," but those terms alone do not specify inflammatory breast cancer.  To add to the possible confusion, the diagnosis may include more that one kind of breast cancer; for example "inflammatory breast cancer, invasive ductal carcinoma, and mucinous carcinoma" all in the same breast.  So if a person you know has been described as having IBC or ibc, it may be well to ask what that is abbreviating, since it may not be "inflammatory breast cancer" and therefore the symptoms and other information presented here may not apply.

Is inflammatory breast cancer the same disease in each person diagnosed?

Researchers and clinicians don't know the answer to that question but hypothesize that there are "types," "sub-types," or "categories" of IBC.  Typically, the sub-types hypothesized are divided by presentation at time of diagnosis: 1) clinical symptoms only, with no pathological confirmation finding tumor emboli (tightly packed clumps of tumor cells, like a bunch of grapes but very tightly packed together) in the dermal lymphatics of the affected breast; 2) pathological only, finding tumor emboli in the dermal lymphatics, without presentation of clinical symptoms; and 3) clinical and pathological.

Another way to categorize IBC is by age and gender at time of diagnosis:

1. There is documented evidence of two cases in girls as young as 12-years-old, one of whom had not begun menstruation.

2. There are several documented cases of male IBC.

3. There are cases diagnosed during pregnancy or lactation.

4. And there are cases that don't fall into any of the first three categories, but are diagnosed in each of three menopausal periods of life: premenopausal, perimenopausal, and postmenopausal.

Beyond those categories, there are IBC cases that have special circumstances:

1. 3 cases diagnosed in 10 months amongst 24 co-workers

2. more than one case in the same family:  mother-daughter, sisters, and 1st degree cousins

3. IBC diagnosed in a breast with an implant

4. IBC diagnosed post-hysterectomy, in some cases including oophorectomy

 For more information, please consult your doctor, local surgery, the internet or best of all, The Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation  http://www.ibcresearch.org/

 (information courtesy of the IBC Research Foundation)