Every year, October is celebrated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While there is a need for considerable knowledge on the subject for women to detect it early, a new US-based survey has found that most women are unaware of the unusual symptoms of a particularly aggressive and deadly form of the disease known as inflammatory breast cancer.

The survey, which was conducted online among 1,100 US women ages 18 and older, revealed that while 4 in 5 women (78 per cent) recognise a lump in the breast as a sign of breast cancer.