Tricks Detect Early Symptoms of Breast Cancer

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Detect early-stage breast cancer is very easy, and can be done alone at home. Quite a few minutes, once a month, to perform breast self-examination.

The more often you check your breasts, you will get to know him, and increasingly easy to find something wrong. However breast examination is an important part of health care, which can protect you from the risk of breast cancer.

Not hard to examine your own breasts situation. Complete breast self-examination is divided into several stages:

• Facing the mirror, the position of both hands straight up, hands on hips, chest thrust forward, both elbows pulled back. That way we will know the tumor is located close to the skin.
• Massage your breast with both hands gently from the edge to the nipple. To determine the presence or absence of fluid out of the nipple (should not exist, unless you're breastfeeding).
• Lie on the bed to check her breasts one by one. To examine the left breast, place a thin pillow under the left shoulder, left arm is stretched over the side of the head or placed under the head.
• Use four fingers are clenched right hand to feel the breast. Palpation performed with a circular motion (like making small circles), starting from the edge of the breast to the nipple. After that slide the little finger's position to the next, and do it again from the edge of the circular movements until the nipple breasts. Do keep in sequence until the entire breast examination. To facilitate the movement, you should use a lotion or soap as a lubricant.
• The circular movements may also be done starting from the nipples, the wider circle at the edge of the breast, or vertically upward and downward from the left edge to the far right edge. Most importantly, the entire area of the breast should be palpated, no one missed.
• Each circular movements should be done with the pressure forces different, at least with three kinds of pressure. First performed with light pressure to feel a lump near the skin surface, the second being to feel the pressure of a lump in the middle of the breast tissue, the third with a strong enough pressure to feel a breast lump at the base, close to the sternum / ribs.
• Perform the touch as before, but in a standing position. For ease, can be done with a shower, when the body of the coat with soap.
• After that, around the armpits and the area around the breast to detect lumps that allegedly spread of cancer.
  

From now on do it regularly and record the results of observation to the next observation. If you find something wrong immediately consult your doctor. If that is the find of the cancer symptoms will be quickly overcome as early as possible. Do it now before it's too late.

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