Breast cancer TCM view.
According to <Orthodox Manual of External Medicine>:
"It starts with the size of bean, gradually becomes the size of a chess piece, there's no pain nor itch, gradually grows bigger, pain starts to develop, but there's no solution to the pain, eventually becomes swollen like a chestnut, and turns purple in color, forming pus, the pain spreads to the heart, causes bleeding and the bleeding has a stench, when the five internal organs (heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidney) start to fail, the big four (earth, water, fire and wind) will not be in balance, resulting in breast cancer.
Whoever suffers from this, chances of dying is 100%. If the symptoms are discovered early, drink soup that helps to clear the liver and relieve depression, or drink energy (Yiqi Yangrong) soup, along with plenty of rest for the body and soul, and using medication to condition, can only help to extend the lifespan by a few years. If it happens to a middle-aged woman without husband, chances of dying is higher."
《外科正宗》曰：
“初如豆大，漸若棋子，半年一年，兩載三載，不疼不癢，漸漸而大，始生疼痛，痛則無解，日後腫如堆栗，或如覆碗，紫色氣穢，漸漸潰爛，深者如岩穴，凸者如泛蓮，疼痛連心，出血則臭，其時五臟俱衰，四大不救，名曰乳岩。凡犯此者，百人百必死。如此症知覺若早，只可清肝解鬱湯，或益氣養榮湯，患者再加清心靜養，無窐無礙，服藥調理，只可茍延歲月。若中年以後無夫之婦，得此死更尤速。”