The symptoms that hlp2011 listed are symptoms of Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC). I sincerely hope she got a good doctor who could help her rule out IBC (or, as what happened in my case, rule it...
I was diagnosed with IBC in 2007. As the Forum Moderated stated, mammograms are not always helpful in determining IBC since there is usually no lump, but a sheet or nest of tumors, which is not seen...