Despite implementing healthy lifestyle, early detection of breast cancer remains to be done, this is important because breast cancer can not be seen by the eye. Check your breasts to look for whether there is a lump or other changes. Using mammography or mammogram, then you can know the condition of your breasts. Launched at mlive.com, American Cancer Society reminds women to take certain steps to reducing the risk of breast cancer. The steps are :
- Women aged 40 years or older should perform mammography and clinical breast examination every year.
- Women aged 20-39 years should do the examination every 3 years.
- Some women at high risk of breast cancer if it is hereditary. Then they should perform a more detailed examination with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
- Women who are married, taking hormonal contraception, use of silicone or plastic surgery of the breast, should do the MRI screening , mammography and clinical breast examination every year.
- Women should maintain weight, eat a healthy food, physical activity for 45-60 minutes 5 times a week, and limit yourself in drink alcohol to reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Mammogram is not 100% successful detect the breast cancer, because some cancers can not be detected by mammogram. On average, mammography will detect about 80 to 90 percent of breast cancers in women without symptoms. But the examination by mammography is currently the most effective way to detect cancer early. Thus, breast cancer can be identified before physical symptoms are growing. The right time to detect breast cancer is one week after menstruation. This is a very appropriate time because of the hormones estrogen and progesterone are at low levels. Hormones estrogen and progesterone control and affect the size of the breast.
Do these following steps:
- Watch the position of your breasts with both hands at waist.
- Raise your left hand upward.
- Use fingers to touch or press the breast (touch a whole). Use a circular motion pattern, or up and down movement, or in and out movement toward the nipple. Try using the same motion every month.
- Press nipple gently and see if there is fluid coming out.
- Check the area between the breast and armpit, breast and sternum while lying down.
If someone has a disorder in her breast, it will appear these following signs :
- If the breast is pressed, it will come out milky white liquid that has no smell but no pain.
- Breast skin looks like orange peel, which is shrinking with the pores rather prominent.
- There are bumps that are always found when examining the area around the breast or under the armpit.
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