Breast

When and how to do self breast examination?

• Every month: Before menopause: after period
  (e.g 7^th-10^th day after period starts)/ Post menopause: same day every month)
• Look at your breasts in the mirror comparing the appearance with the arms on your hips, then raised above the head
• Feel your breasts using the finger tips together
  1) in circles from the nipple outwards or
  2) up and down in columns or
  3) like a clock from e.g 1o clock positions to the nipple and so on.
• Feel your armpits for lumps

What to be aware of?

• a lump
• skin changes: thickening, indentations
• nipple: fluid, retraction
• armpit: lump
• persistent pain