When and how to do self breast examination?
- Every month: Before menopause: after period
(e.g 7th-10th 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
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