What are the methods of self-examination for breast cancer?

Breast disease is not easy to detect, so when the disease is discovered, it is usually in the late stage. At this time, the best time for treatment has been missed. Therefore, female friends must improve their awareness of prevention in daily life and pay attention to self-examination. You can use the method of one look, two touch, and three squeeze to check. So what are the self-examination methods for breast cancer? Let’s find out.

Women should raise their awareness of prevention in their daily lives and pay attention to self-examination to improve the cure rate. Self-detection method for early breast cancer: Generally, the examination should be performed one week after each menstrual period (during menstruation, the breasts are congested and swollen, and small deep tumors are difficult to feel). The self-examination method is: look, touch and squeeze.

First look: Take off your clothes, put your hands on your hips, face the mirror, and check whether the nipples are retracted and deviated, and whether the breast skin has dimples (early manifestation) or orange peel appearance (late manifestation). Second touch: Sit or lie on your back, put your five fingers together, and place the palms and the front half of your palms flat on the breasts to touch (do not grab or pinch the breasts to avoid mistaking the mammary lobules for lumps). Check for lumps and tenderness in the breasts, as well as the size, shape, texture, surface condition, mobility, and clear boundaries of the lumps. If you have any of the following conditions, go to a regular hospital for examination immediately. 1. There is a painless lump in the breast with unclear boundaries, rough surface and poor mobility. 2. Painless enlargement of axillary lymph nodes. Three squeezes: During the non-breastfeeding period, put your hands together, hold the breasts, and squeeze with the base of your palms with appropriate force to check whether there is any liquid overflowing from the nipples and the nature of the liquid.

According to statistics, the incidence of breast cancer in patients with nipple discharge is 20%-45%. Nipple discharge is the first symptom of intraductal carcinoma. Finally, don’t forget to check your underarms. Of course, self-examination cannot replace a specialist's examination. If you feel obvious discomfort, or if you discover changes in the breast or armpits through self-examination but are not sure what the lesions are, or if you suffer from various breast diseases, you should go to the hospital and conduct self-examination and relevant specialist examinations under the guidance of a doctor.

I hope that the above introduction to the self-examination method for breast cancer will help female friends. I also hope that female friends can pay attention to it, develop good hygiene habits in daily life, and go to the hospital regularly for physical examinations to eliminate hidden dangers of the disease. They can also detect the disease in its early stages and avoid the deterioration of the disease.