Breast Self-Examination


* Standing in front of the mirror with her ​​hands placed on the side of the body.
Raise both arms and observe carefully the skin on the breast if there are wrinkles, curves, change in size or shape.
See if there is a change of symmetry in both breasts.
Observe also if the nipple or enter into any strange fluid coming out of the nipple.
Now put both hands on the side pingul then observe your breasts.After that put both hands behind your head and do the same.

* Check both breasts while standing in the shower while showering.Do the same when you lie.
Put one hand behind his head, one hand while doing the massagemotion rotate clockwise in the area of ​​breast tissue, nipple, and thetissue under the armpit.
Repeat this on the left breast. When you do the bath, soaps andwater makes the skin smooth up to mampermudah examination.


* Check if there are lumps that do not disappear or do not change.An abnormal lump can appear suddenly and persist.
These lumps of different shapes and hardness and sometimesfeels hard with irregular edges.
Sometimes the lump is a thickening of the tissue without a clearboundary line. Remember, the cancerous lump is usually painless.

American Cancer Society recommends women undergo clinicalbreast examination as part of routine health examinations, onceevery three years for women aged 20-39 years and every year for women over 40 years.

T 0: not found the primary tumor
Q 1: The size of the tumor diameter of 2 cm or less
T 2: tumor size of 2-5 cm diameter
Q 3: The size of the tumor diameter> 5 cm
Q 4: How tumor size alone, but there have been spread to the skinor chest wall or both, may include ulcers,  edema, or swelling, breast skin redness or a small lump on the skin outside the main tumor

Stadium 0: T0 N0 M0
Stadium 1: T1 N0 M0
Stadium II A: T0 N1 M0 / T1 N1 M0 / T2 N0 M0
Stadium IIB: T2 N1 M0 / T3 N0 M0
Stadium IIIA: T0 N2 M0 / T1 N2 M0 / T2 N2 M0 / T3, N1, M0 / T2 N2M0
Stadium IIIB: T4 N0 M0 / N1 M0 T4 / T4 N2 M0
Stadium III C: every T N3 M0
Stadium IV: every T-M1-N

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