If you were asked how to examine yourself for breast cancer, would your answer be to check for lumps? If so, then you need to continue reading. Checking for lumps while in the shower was long preached as THE thing to do to protect yourself and possibly help with an early diagnosis. But there are many more ways that irregularities can present. Review this short list and tuck it in the back of your mind. You or a loved one may need this knowledge some day. Any of the following should be cause for following up with your doctor:
a. Change in the size of one breast versus the other breast.
b. Dimpling anywhere on the breast or nipple.
c. Discharge from the nipple.
d. Warmth , rash or itching.
e. Pain
f. and of course…Lumps.
Love and Know YOUR GIRLS.
