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Intro

Women should know how their breasts normally look and feel and report any new breast changes to a health professional as soon as they are found. Finding a breast change does not necessarily mean there is a cancer. Using this guilde will help you examine your own breasts.

Examine Breasts in Shower

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Examine Breasts in Mirror with your arms up, down and at your sides

Examine each one

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Stand and Press your fingers on your breasts working around the breasts in a circular motion.

Lie Down

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Like step 3 Stand and Press your fingers on your breasts working around the breasts in a circular motion.

Finally

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Squeese your nipples to check for any discharge. Check under the nipple last.

General Info

Regularly examining her own breasts allows a woman to become familiar with how her breasts normally look and feel and can help her more readily detect any changes that may occur. Many women naturally have some lumpiness and asymmetry (differences between the right and left breast). The key to the breast self-exam is to learn how to find changes in the breasts that persist over time.
Many women do not know how to perform breast self exams properly. Performing BSE incorrectly can be almost as bad as not doing the exam at all since it can give women a false sense of security. After reading these sections on BSE, women should discuss any questions they might have about BSE techniques with their physicians and ask him or her to demonstrate how to perform BSE during the clinical breast exam portion of the physical exam.

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