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Breast self-examination
Women discover nearly 80 per cent of breast cancers through self-examinations. You should perform a self-examination once a month, about a week after your period ends. If you’re past menopause or have irregular periods, perform the examination on the same date each month.
Here’s how:
• Lie down, slip a pillow under your right shoulder and tuck your right arm behind your head. (Some women check their breasts in the shower or bathtub, because wet, soapy fingers glide more easily.)
• Pressing firmly, feel your right breast with the fingers of your left hand. Work in a circle (from the centre out) or in an up-and-down pattern, until you’ve covered the entire breast.
• Now move the pillow under your left shoulder, tuck your left hand behind your head and check your left breast with your right hand.
• Next stand in front of a mirror with your hands on your hips, then raised overhead and look for any visible lumps, skin puckering, dimpling or nipple changes. Gently squeeze each nipple to check for discharge.
If you feel a lump, don’t panic — it’s not necessarily a tumour. It may simply be a noncancerous hardening of tissue called a fibrous breast lump or a benign cyst (a fluid-filled sac that can be painful). Call your doctor as soon as possible.
WARNING: Although it’s rare, men can get breast cancer, too. Early symptoms include a painless lump, skin ulceration and nipple changes like retraction and discharge, which may be blood.
Reducing your risk of Breast Cancer :- See "Health Tips 5 - Reducing your risk of Breast Cancer"
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