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AUTOEXAMINATION OF THE BREASTS
DESCRIPTION PROCEDURE TO CONSULT

DESCRIPTION

Although 75 % of the nodules of the breasts is benign 25 % remainder can put in danger his life. For it the autoexamination of the breasts is of fundamental importance since the cancer is curable if it is detected on time.

It must examine his breasts every month.

If it has not come to the menopause the best thing is to realize it a few days after the menstruation, since the breasts are less tense and puffed up.

If you are in the menopause fix a date every month to realize it.

PROCEDURE

1. Put opposite the mirror, with the arms fallen down along the body. Be fixed in the skin of the breasts by if projecting areas (nodules) or dimples appear, or changes in the size or aspect of the breasts. Observe if the nipples are normal, verifying that are not invested, retracted or fixed towards the interior.

Autoexamination 1.

4. Later, being the dry breasts after the bath, put his left hand behind the head and examine the left breast with the right hand of the following way:

Douched

6. Realize the same operation in the position of the 1 of the clock, after the 2 and this way, successively, the whole schedule.

7. When it finishes the schedule, puts the fingers and the hand again in the same attitude but now about the nipple and, with circular movements, from 12 a.m. and in the sense of the hands of the clock it is doing concentric circles.

Autoexamination
 

2. Then put the hands in his hips, observing the same.

Autoexamination

3. Later put the hands on the nape, to realize, once again, the same observation.

Autoexamination

5. Imagining that his breast is a clock sphere put his right hand at 12 a.m. exactly (above). Leave his relaxed hand and press with the tops of the fingers (all together) doing slowly a circular movement, trying to feel the possible presence of nodules.

Autoexamination

8. Do smaller and smaller circles to come up to the nipple.

Be fixed in the possible existence of nodules and in a possible exudation of liquid by the nipple.

Nipple

9. To end a kidling realizes palpación of the area near to the armpit, where it can have woven mammary.

Autoexamination
 

10. On having finished this exploration, it must realize the same operation in his right breast, using his left hand and following the same steps.

11. It is suitable to realize the same operation being knocked down, putting a pillow in the right shoulder to explore with the left hand his right breast, repeating then the same operation with the left breast.

Autoexamination

If it should notice many nodules fibróticos normal (fibrosis quística of breast), it must count them and observe his size, so that in every occasion it could realize a control of the number and size of the same ones, must observe the possible changes.

It must bear in mind that 41 % of the cancerous nodules is in the external top quadrant (direction shoulder) of the breast, 34 % in the central portion (nipple), 14 % in the internal Superior (direction neck), 5 % in the internal low quadrant (direction bellybutton) and 6 % in the low day pupil (direction elbow).

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Writing: Medical equipment   Update: June, 2009


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