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- Medical Video: Understanding What Breast Lumps May Feel Like | UCHealth
- 1. Check your breasts again
- 2. Re-check your menstrual calendar
- 3. Consult the problem of breast lumps with your doctor
Medical Video: Understanding What Breast Lumps May Feel Like | UCHealth
Early detection of breast cancer by breast self-examination is recommended to be done routinely. This is useful so that you can find abnormalities or maybe a sign of cancer earlier. By doing early detection, two possibilities will arise, namely the discovery of breast lumps or not.
You may feel anxious and afraid when you find a lump in your breast. However, you should not rush into a panic, because the lump detected in the breast is not necessarily cancer.
Even so, each lump needs to be ascertained or examined further whether it is malignant or not. All lumps are tumors but some are malignant and not malignant. This malignant lump is called cancer.
To prevent the impact that you don't want, it's a good idea to take care as early as possible. Then what should you do if you find a lump in the breast?
1. Check your breasts again
If you find a lump around the breast, do not rush to worry. You should check again by touching all parts of the breast, both on the left and on the right side.
Do a check by lying in bed, with both hands placed on top. Then one hand touches the breast to find whether or not there is a hard lump in the breast. In order for the results to be valid, it is recommended to do an examination after menstruation or long before menstruation.
2. Re-check your menstrual calendar
Do not quickly decide if the lump in your breast is a breast cancer lump. Lumps that appear can only be a sign that you will experience menstruation.
3. Consult the problem of breast lumps with your doctor
If you still feel uncomfortable or worried about a lump in your breast after applying some of the methods above, then you should consult with a doctor to be able to find out what really happened to your health with certainty.
The doctor will find out what happened to your body. The sooner you consult, then the handling that can be done on your body will be faster too. That way, you can reduce the worst risk.
Never be afraid to ask about your condition and consult a doctor. This is important so that the complaints that occur in your body are immediately known for the cause, and treatment will be done faster on your body, so that the worst possible and other risks you can reduce.
Your doctor will ask several questions about your medical history. The doctor will do a breast examination to feel lumps or other changes in the breast tissue and under the arms. If there is fluid coming out of your nipple, your doctor will collect samples and examine the cancer cells.
Doctors may also do it mammogram or ultrasound to see if the lump is solid or full of liquid. Your doctor may consider a biopsy. The doctor will take a small sample of the lump with a needle or small piece and send it to the laboratory, to find out if your lump is cancerous or not.
