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How to Check Your Breasts

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AndyRew

In 2012, there were 2,819 deaths from breast cancer in Australia (24 males and 2,795 females). In 2015, it is estimated that this will increase to 3,065 deaths (25 males and 3,040 females).

Examine:
Make sure you take time to examine your breasts regularly. It may be good to put a reminder in your diary or your phone to prompt you.
Some tips:

  • Look at your breasts in the mirror noting the size and shape
  • Some women prefer to examine their breasts lying down or when they are in the shower or bath.
  • Make sure when you examine your breasts you include the area up to your collarbone and down to below your bra line and under your arm.
  • Use the flat of your hand to start then followed by the flat part of your fingers to go deeper into the tissue.
  • Please notify your GP or medical specialist immediately if you notice any changes.
http://www.healthdirect.gov.au/breast-cancer
https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/wat...ncer-warning-to-young-australian-women/#page1
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4182745.htm

 
Dallas

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Great post, thanks for the info.

6 years ago I found a lump in my (then) wife's breast. It was only really small like the size of a pea and she wasn't even concerned and I only found it by pushing in quite hard and she didn't even know it was there, but it also did what they said in the video and it caused the nipple to turn slightly downward which she had noticed and wondered why.

My wife said she had an appointment in 2 weeks with her GP and would ask then. This was on a Saturday, well on the Monday morning at 8:30am I was at the doctors surgery and asking for an appointment for her for the same day. They said they had none for six weeks. I said it was urgent and started explaining the symptoms, ladies who had appointments and were waiting came up to me and offered me their appointments, the receptionist suddenly found a vacant appointment that afternoon and I reluctantly got my wife to go in. 9 days later she was in hospital having a mastectomy as it was considered the worst type of breast cancer and in that one week the lump had gone from a pea size to that of a golf ball. She went through a mastectomy, then chemo, then radiotherapy and then 7 years of Tamoxifen which she's nearly finished. During all that she divorced me but I still check in on her and help her out with things, but the main point to this is, she's alive because we dealt with it immediately. Since then I have found lumps in two working ladies breasts, and I found the discovery quite distressing during a booking especially having to talk about it, but I encouraged them both to see a doctor.
 
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