Rubbing Boobs the Right Way

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You need to check your breasts from puberty until old age. Experts suggest making a routine of it so it becomes second nature. Dr Miriam Stoppard suggests doing it regularly to get thoroughly acquainted with how your breasts change in appearance and texture throughout your cycle. Once you are familiar check them once a month, after your period to give your hormones time to settle. Hormone changes can make them feel lumpy, tender and sore.

How To Do a Breast Self-examination

Observing Your Breasts

• Raise your arms above your head and look at your breasts in the mirror from the front and side. Put your hands on your hips firmly to tense your muscles. Lean forwards from the waist and look at them again from the front and sides.

Changes to look for in your breasts

• Any new lump (which may or may not be painful or tender)
• Unusual thickening of your breasts
• Sticky or bloody discharge from your nipples
• Any changes in the skin of your nipples or breasts, such as puckering or dimpling
• An unusual increase in the size of one breast
• One breast unusually lower than the other

Feeling Your Breasts

• Lie flat on your back and raise your arm up behind your head to lift the breasts. It’s easier to use the opposite hand – your left hand on your right breast and vice versa.
  

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Make small circles starting on the nipple and spiralling outwards towards the armpits.

Move your fingers vertically from beneath the breast to the top and then do the same horizontally. Feel beneath your breasts, all around your armpits, décolletage and up to your collarbone.

What If I Find a Lump in My Breast?

Don’t panic. Most lumps and tender spots are hormonal and linked to menstruation, or benign fluid-filled cysts that are easily removed. A lump doesn’t mean you have breast cancer. Check the opposite breast to see if there is a lump in the same place so you know whether it is normal to you. Wait until your period has finished to see whether it disappears. If it doesn’t make an appointment with your doctor to get it checked out.

Women age 40 and over should get a mammogram every 1 to 2 years. If you have risk factors for breast cancer, such as a family history of breast cancer, your doctor may want you to have mammograms more often or start having them sooner. A mammogram is the most effective way to find breast cancer early, up to 2 years before the lump is even large enough to feel. A mammogram is a special kind of X-ray of your breasts. The amount of radiation used in the X-ray is very small and not harmful.

Mammograms detect cancer because cancer is more dense (thicker) than the normal part of the breast. A radiologist will look at the X-rays for signs of cancer or other breast problems.

Source: familydoctor.org, 2009.

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