Do you touch your boobs?

[Mazarati_2003]

Monthly breast self-examination includes both looking and feeling over the entire breast and chest area. Women should use the pads, not the tips, of the three middle fingers when performing BSE. The time required to perform the exam varies with the size and features of a woman's breasts but usually only takes about 15 to 20 minutes each month. Women should be sure to examine the breasts in the same manner each month, check the entire breast and armpit area, and remember how the breasts feel from month to month. Some women prefer to keep a small diary of their monthly breast self-exams.

Performing Breast Self-Exams

Breast self-examination is best performed lying down.

Lie down with a pillow or folded towel under the right shoulder and place the right arm behind the head. Check the entire breast and armpit area using the pads of the first three middle fingers on the left hand to feel for lumps, changes, or irregularities in the right breast. Apply 3 pressures-light, medium, and deep-in dime-sized circles to feel the entire thickness of the breast." A firm ridge in the lower curve of each breast is normal. The exam should then be repeated on the left breast, using the finger pads of the right hand (the pillow or folded towel should also be moved under the left shoulder at this time).

Areas to Examine with Particular Care

It is important to thoroughly examine the entire area of the breast every month:

• Outside: armpit to collar bone, and below the breast
• Middle: the breast itself
• Inside: the nipple area

However, cancerous tumors are more likely to be found in some parts of the breast than in others. Approximately half of all breast cancers occur in the upper, outer region of the breast toward the armpit. Some physicians refer to this upper outer region as the "tail" of the breast and encourage women to examine it with great care.

 

Approximate percentage of breast cancers found in each area: 41% in the upper, outer quadrant 14% in the upper, inner quadrant 5% in the lower, inner quadrant 34% in the area behind the nipple 6% in the lower, outer quadrant

[Mazarati_2003]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 2:50 PM

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[maisah]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 7:05 PM

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[maisah]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 7:45 PM

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[Lb128f]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 9:07 PM

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[Lb128f]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 9:08 PM

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[penny201]

Sep. 20, 2008 at 10:29 PM

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[maisah]

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[elwalters77]

Sep. 21, 2008 at 8:58 AM

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[Godsgirl50]

Oct. 9, 2008 at 5:32 PM

I am really sorry you had to experience what you did... In 2008 you would think that racism would be a thing of the past. But far from it.

My husband and I went to a movie a week ago to see Fireproof at a very rich part of town since it was closest to us. After the movie went to wait at Valet for our truck and this rich white couple stared at us in such a way, I felt like I was an Alien from another country!  I stared right back. We are a mixed couple and have been married 30 years. I wanted to say something but my husband said let it go. So when they were behind us I rubbed my husband's back to flash my diamond anniversary ring in her face. So the lady could see look were not poor folk, and then our Avalanche pulled up for us to get in and I just looked at her. I know a lot of people like that have preconseived notions about mixed couples. Like poor , uneducated, pimp or whatever .........you know what I mean.  Anyway, it really bothered me. But, people are people and there's nothing we can do to change them. Sucks dosen't it?