Table 1.

Locally advanced breast cancer: different clinical presentations

Operable breast cancer at initial presentation	Inoperable breast cancer at initial presentation
STAGE IIB	STAGE IIIB
T3N0M0	T4a (skin), T4b (chest wall) or T4c (both skin and chest wall) stage.
STAGE IIIA	STAGE IIIC
T3 tumour with any N stage   N2 stage with T1, T2 or T3 stage	N3 stage with any T stage.
Also, may be considered as locally advanced breast cancer
T2 tumours but appearing large in proportion to size of the breasts Inflammatory Ca breast – T4d.