Paget’s disease

…forms of breast cancer include Paget disease and inflammatory carcinoma. Paget disease begins at the nipple and initially causes a burning, itching, or tender sensation. Eventually, the lesion becomes enlarged, cracks, oozes, and forms crusts. Inflammatory carcinoma is a rare type of breast cancer that results in swelling and reddening…

…of breast cancer known as Paget’s disease (1874; an inflammatory cancerous condition around the nipple in elderly women), and Paget’s disease of bone (1877; a bone inflammation also known as osteitis deformans). Also named for him is Paget’s abscess, one recurring about the remains of a former abscess. He was…