Dr. Susan pulled the United States in his book, “Breast Manual”, said “women to get rid of the threat of breast cancer, breast self-examination should be once a month.” In order to prevent breast cancer, women’s own breast self-examination, it is worth advocating and promotion.
Economical and easy to breast self-examination, through the practice is not difficult to master and can become a women’s health is “good medicine.” While passing through the post-election self-examination should 7 – 10 days (this time the breast soft, easy to detect subtle changes), and later had opted for the same amount of time after each pass through (to facilitate comparison before and after). Post-menopausal women were optional on the same day of each month.
Breast self-examination of the first step, off T-shirt and a natural sagging arms in the mirror to examine the breast. Observe the size, shape, contour, symmetry, and nipple height, and pointing to others, depending on whether there are changes and anomalies of its.
The second step, the force arms akimbo hands on a trip or to make pectoralis major tightening of repeated observations such as the former can turning left and right body from different angles, thin-assess. Found the surface of breast dimple-like pits, or uplift, nipple displacement or retraction, nipple with bloody or brown discharge, then the tips below it may have breast disease.
The third step is palpation breast and armpit. Horizontal, left shoulder Xiadian a small pillow, and held his left hand placed on the ear, so that left internal mammary fully flattened. The right hand index finger, middle finger and ring finger close together, flat surface, gently placed left internal mammary to make a small margin circling movement, through the pulp of the sensitive touch to detect lumps or partial gland thickening. This side of palpation, while the breast from the nipple to the periphery or outside to inside to screw propulsion, the order of palpation, slipped across the front surface of the entire breast. Then, touch the depths under the areola, and gently squeeze the nipple to observe whether the discharge. Then, with the same fingering check the left side of the armpit, depending on their lymph node enlargement. The fourth step is the same method and steps with his left hand to complete the right breast and right armpit of the palpation.
So often check in time, will be very familiar with their breasts; in the future will be able to detect abnormalities such as a slight rise alert to health care, is beneficial to early diagnosis of breast cancer. However, breast self-examination is no substitute for specialist examination and mammography X ray mammography, which can be detected in particular, a diameter of 0.5 cm below the early cancer, offers some advantages. If the above three kinds of means to complement each other, with the use of, then the majority of early breast cancer will not be able Dunxing, let your life get rid of its shadow.
Simple method:
Breast self-test method (1): arms akimbo, stood upright before the mirror look at the breast.
Breast self-test method (2): Squeeze the nipple, checking whether the milk discharge.
Breast self-test method (3): upright breast examination, the left hand touch the right breast, right hand touching the left breast.
Breast self-test method (4): arms in the air, upright standing before the mirror look at the breast.
Breast self-test method (5): supine examination, side shoulder pads of a small pillow, touching breasts.
